Construction Workers May Have Found the Mummy of a Long-Lost Iranian Shah
(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — A mummified body discovered near the site of a former royal mausoleum in Iran may be the remains of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and the father of the country’s last shah.
The recent find of the gauze-wrapped body — and the speculation it triggered — puts new hurdles in the way of the Islamic Republic’s efforts to fully erase the country’s dynastic past, which includes the jack-hammered destruction of the autocrat’s tomb immediately after the 1979 revolution.
Yet, as disaffection and economic problems grow ahead of the Islamic Revolution’s 40th anniversary, mystique around Iran’s age of monarchies persists even with its own history of abuses.
اخبار مربوط به پیدا شدن پیکر مومیاییشده رضاشاه در شاهعبدالعظیم را از نزدیک دنبال میکنم. فعلا در حال بررسی موضوع هستیم و در...
Source: TIME: Science - Category: Science Authors: Jon Gambrell / AP Tags: Uncategorized Iran onetime Source Type: news
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