Geoy Tepe, Archaeological site in Urmia, Iran.
Geoy Tepe is a large earthen mound near Urmia that rises about 24 meters high with a base spanning several hundred meters in each direction. A natural spring sits at the foot of the mound.
People first settled here in the fourth millennium BCE and continued living at this location for many centuries afterward. The occupation ended around 1200 BCE.
The objects found here show how people organized their communities and built their homes across different eras. The layers reveal how groups adapted their ways of living as time passed.
The site sits south of the city of Urmia and is accessible to visitors. Wear comfortable shoes since you will be walking across the mound.
Excavators dug eight different pits that reveal the history of the site layer by layer from bottom to top. The oldest materials come from the middle of the fourth millennium BCE.
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