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Lakh Mazar Inscription is a prehistory stone wall located near the Kooch village, about 29 km away from Birjand. It is the most valuable memorial plaque in east of Iran due to its diversity and historical importance. These inscriptions were discovered by the Birjand Historical Research group and after preliminary studies, 307 images including a collection of inscriptions and motifs on the rocky mountains of Bagheran were identified and at the very beginning they considered their cultural content and features as heritages from the past. In Lakh Mazar Inscription in Birjand, you will see different images that have survived from different periods and have taken a few thousand years of our land. Each of these paintings has their own style according to their period and every single of them can be analyzed on its own. As a general category, Lakh Mazar Inscription in Birjand can be divided into four major groups, stone period, and prehistoric, historical and Islamic periods. Lakh Mazar Inscription in Birjand were observed with signs of human, animal and plant pictorial lines and signs and symbols of manifestations of nature. From these 307 paintings and engravings on these rocks, 22 of them relate to the role of man, 33 relate to the role of the animal, 35 plant's role, 4 pictorial lines, 81 inscriptions of the Pahlavi Parthian and Sassanid and 42 includes Persian and Arabic inscriptions, 67 of these rock paintings have not been identified yet. In order to visit such an amazing inscription you must go to South Khorasan Province.

swastika

• In some mountain in Iran, there are swastikas or spinning wheels on the stone walls of the mountains, which are estimated to be more than 7,000 years old. One of these graffiti is in Khorashad, Birjand, on the holly wall called Mazar. At least one of its swastikas has survived. Numerous shapes and graffiti have been drawn on this wall, some have been destroyed by subsequent or deliberate drawings.(parssea.magazin in persian,2014)

See also

• Iran
• Brigid's cross
• Camunian rose
• Fasces
• Fascist symbolism
• Svarog
• Svastikasana
• Swastika curve
• Yoke and arrows

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