September
07
/ 2022
In excavations in southwestern Iran at the Tol-e Chega Sofla site on the Zohreh plain, a team of Iranian archaeologists unearthed 13 deformed skulls of humans, all of which had been intentionally altered by human hands. This eye-opening discovery was recently announced by Professors Mahdi Alirezazadeh, Hamed Vahdatinasab, and Abbas Moghaddam, who explained the meaning and significance of their find in an article published by the Iranian Scientific Archaeological Association. “Since 13 deformed skulls have been excavated in this site so far and these skulls are well preserved, there is an excellent opportunity to study this issue,” the archaeologists wrote. These are not the first human skulls found in southwest Asia that have been subjected to such treatment. The deformed
