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Show Visiting Authropologist Bares Ancient Royal Iran Cemetery Marlik, royal cemetery in Iran which dates to about 1000 B.C., will be explained and illustrated il-lustrated in a public lecture Mon- dations of Persia at the turn of the second to first millenia, B.C. THESE KINGDOMS later consolidated con-solidated into what were known as the Median-Achaemanid empires. em-pires. Marlik is the first excavated example of such an early regional region-al kingdom in the northern Caspian Cas-pian section, of Iran. THE RICH finds form the basis for study of linkages between be-tween the Caucasus and Russian Asia on one hand and the classic Near Eastern regions on the other. day at 8 p.m. in Orson Spencer Hall. THE PRESENTATION will be made by Dr. Ezat O. Negahban, visiting lecturer sponsored by the University Department of Anthropology. The lecturer is presently in the United States on a Fulbright research re-search grant. IN 1961-62, Professor Negahban, Negah-ban, of the University of Tehran and the Iranian Archeological Service, excavated the remarkable remark-able series of graves in the mound on the northern slopes of the Elburz Mountains. The content of the graves evidently evi-dently hark back to royal burials of the regional political consoli- |