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Sensational reports spread concerning mummy found on Iranian-Azerbaijani borders - EXCLUSIVE

Sensational reports spread concerning mummy found on Iranian-Azerbaijani borders - <font color=red> EXCLUSIVE</font>

26 August 2010 15:33 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ilhama Isabalayeva, Suleyman Farzaliyev â€“ APA. Spokesperson for the National and Cultural heritage Office of the Iranâ€™s Eastern Azerbaijan province Farinush Akbarzadeh denied reports about mummy found during the archeological excavations near historic area of Khudaferin on Azerbaijan-Iranian borders. Akbarzadeh said some wreckers buried an embalmed effigy there, Iranian archeologists identified that it was not an embalmed human body, but only effigy.

IN January, 2008, head of the Iranian Antique Research Institute Hasan Fazeli also denied information about the mummy finding near Khudaferin reservoir.

Fazeli told Fars News Agency that Iranâ€™s population particularly Azerbaijani people have been monotheists since the ancient time and believe in Oneness of Allah and they never buried people as mummy.

However one of the leaders of Iranian national movement organization Alireza Farshi told www.milliharakat.com in December, 2008 that it was a kingâ€™s mummy of 3500-4500 years.

A local resident who witnessed the archeological excavations also confirmed to APA that a mummy was found there. He said it was taped at site.

Vice president of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Naila Velikhanli told APA that they saw only photos of the mummy and tried to read words engraved on the kingâ€™s breast. Experts of the ancient graphics couldnâ€™t identify what was written there. Velikhanli said it was very controversial issue and it was not clear whether it was a mummy or only effigy. She said the Academy was not planning to make any effort to read engraves on the body because it was impossible to do that on photos. She didnâ€™t exclude that the photo could be a computer graphic.