5 Thursday, August 6, 2015 - attached volume 2190 TODAY’S Kerman; a safe area for investment

Written by: Yahya Fath Nejat

According to antiquities and artifacts discovered victory, development of infrastructures such as commonality can be investigated as a research by Iranian and European archaeologists' rail roads, power plants, airports, highways, subject for researchers and students of searches at the ancient sites of Desert, harbors and industrial zones provided a suitable linguistics. Additionally, so many of Kerman the river sides of Halil Rud river in and ground for a safe investment and increased words and terms indicate that Kerman was one Yahya Hill in Kerman and Eblis Hill in , investors chance of earning higher income. of the origins of Aryan immigrants. Thus, the archaeologists have confessed that Kerman On the other hand, Kerman has been accent and culture of people of Kerman can be Province is one of the civilization center on the recognized as one of the main transit paths to known as a tourist attraction and also a source of world and its history and tradition starts with China, India, Mesopotamia, Africa and Europe income for foreign investors interested in cultural emerging urbanization. The early explorations for more than 7000 years. According to this studies through studying the works of European on third millennium at Jiroft, based on beliefs of feature and other opportunities and facilities and American orientalists and then sending an archaeologist, proved that Kerman was the provided in free trade zones of the province, cultural tourists to Kerman for applying more origin of civilization on the world. Before, investors can benefit from its advantages as a investigations. archaeologists introduced Mesopotamia as the trading center. On the other hand, universities' development origin of the world civilization. Some others, such Lut desert, one of the greatest and most beautiful especially establishment of various departments as Kaboli, believe that the missing civilization deserts on the world, is a tourist attraction site of natural sciences in Kerman, created an “Arta” is in Kerman. which can attracts sandy games athletes. appropriate ground for expanding scientific The rock made village “Meymand” located in Researchers can also set up their investigations cooperation between and other countries. Shahr-e Babak county is considered as another in the hottest point on the earth in Kerman Such a cooperation can be helpful for American proof confirming ancientness of Kerman. termed as “Gandom Beryan” meaning “grill and European scientists and students who Discovering copper melting furnaces in Yahya wheat”, as well as other hot points such as because of their unfamiliarity to Persian Hill and Eblis Hill, working on zinc oxide in Shahdad Kaloutes, Rud-e Shur and also in language or the lack of enough knowledge about Kuhbanan (based on Marco Polo's remarks, hundreds other natural places. it, are not able to realize and comprehend Italian merchant traveler), producing brass in Moreover, many monuments left from Sassanid, manuscripts existing in their libraries and thus ancient Kerman, discovering ancient mines of Seljuk, Safavid, Timurid and Qajar era attract many mysteries inside these manuscripts will iron, lead, silver and gold, all illustrate metal those who are interested in discovering Iranian remain a secret. Besides, the history of Kerman industry progression in ancient Kerman. architectural secrets. Beautiful natural sites of with its thousands years of rise and fall, can be Copper, chromite, iron, lead, zinc, coal and many and its various plant species considered as a light on future historical and other rich mines caused Kerman to be famed as along with the especial feature of four seasons cultural studies. “mining paradise” among Iran's miners and climate, are considered as tourist attractions of Finally, Kerman province, known as “Darul scientists of natural sciences. These the province. Therefore, the high potential Aman” meaning “a safe house” in long times specifications of Kerman have made it a tourism industry in Kerman province, provide ago, as a safe and stable island with its rise and favorable center of investment, working and new opportunities for creative and brilliant fall throughout the history, contains latent income and suggest that each point of this area investors who can benefit from these potentials accessible for creative and brilliant can provide an appropriate opportunity for unexploited capacities and potentials. investors. The province is a huge source of work, investors to establish factories related to According to common words between Kerman's production and income under constructive minerals. Specially, after Islamic revolution people accent and European languages, this thoughts and persistent efforts of its managers

streams reach to the end point, there is a that is a land of sand and clay on which its Interestingly, the poor vegetation of Rud-e Shur Written by: Akbar Rashidi Moghadam saline shore that its salt bubbles have combination to salty water of rivers in addition to hollow is another aspect of it, means that a plant created a wonderful and high evaporation in summer time caused the hardly can be founded in the center of the area. Hearing desert name a dry, scorching, wide land spectacular site in the surface mixture to be cracked and create The situation is different about animal life as comes to the mind which to gush a drop of water desert. The soil of honeycomb shaped structures on it. In some researchers have observed some insects such as on its arid soil seems to be impossible. The life this area has areas the polygon and honeycomb shaped cracks butterfly, fly, mantis (mantodea), spiders, cycle in desert is generally known as sunrise and are so bulging and ridgy that have created a rough dragonflies, agama (lizard), some species of the sunset and nothing else, while it is far away from areas birds and migrating birds, mammals such as our imagination that a water source may be fox and aquatic insects such as Artemia, live inside permanently flowing in desert during the whole the hollow and the water. seasons of year. A hidden lake that living creatures Rashidi announced discovering of two rivers in the grow around it constituting other organisms Rud-e Shur hollow and said: for many years nutriment which reveals a life cycle in desert. Lut researchers believed that the Rud-e Shur River Desert, the world's hottest place, contains such a was the only permanent river in Lut desert but hidden sea in a hollow called Rud-e Shur Chaleh some researchers from Kerman could recognize which has created a new life in the desert. The two new rivers in the area after two years Persian word “Chaleh” means “hollow” in English. investigation. Among various Chalehs or water hollows in Lut The first discovered permanent river is located at desert such as Gode-deh-salm hollow, Gode- Noh the end of a seasonal river named “kucheh”, hollow, Gaz-e Hamoon hollow, Zangi Ahmad sourced from Kuh-e Sorkh Mountains and hollow and so on, the Rude-e Shur hollow is the Abdolahi Mountains in northern Lut, and the end of biggest one which contains huge amount of water, the river consists of several springs together because seasonal and permanent rivers, streams created a headwater serves as the permanent and watercourses from the north, east and west river that was discovered in September 2011. This flow toward it. Its saline riverside view amazes any permanent river was named as “Kaal Lut” through spectator. consulting to a group of desert experts from Fars For a better introduction and more information province headed by Bahman Izadi in November about this natural phenomenon, we talked to 2011. Akbar Rashidi Moghadam, a desert expert from Hidden sea inside desert The second discovered river is located at the end Kerman that is also a member of tourism of a seasonal river named Khoshk Rud, the source committee of Kerman's Chamber of Commerce, which is in north Lut around south Khorasan area, Industries, Mines and Agriculture. an elastic quality such that can trap down wheels and bumpy sight. Kaloutaks or egg shaped hills passes through a place named Puzeh Kal and Rashidi considered this area as a natural of a car. Because the water level in the area is are another natural phenomenon that are then enters the Rud-e Shur hollow. The river phenomenon of desert and said: Lut desert is a dry closed to the ground surface, it is called “wet area”. considered as tourist attraction in this area. They consists of several permanent springs at the end and wide land, the area which is 175000 square In addition to wet area, a vast part of the soil occupied a vast area of the southern parts of Rud- part of Khoshk Rud stream together construct a kilometers, reaching to Jebal Barez Mountains around the hollow is damp and then is called e Shur River and Gandom-e Beryan place inside river with a permanent and flowing water that was from the south, to the Southern Khorasan “moist area” as the water level beneath this area is which there is a rich sources of salt. Moreover, discovered and named as “Ravan Rud-e Khoshk Mountains from the north, to the Sistan and approximately closed to the soil layer of ground. some of these Kaloutaks have been created inside Rud” by some researchers from Kerman. The two Baluchestan Mountains from the east and to the Inside the hollow there are several observable the hollow, the shapes which are different from rivers were more investigated in winter season by Kerman Mountains from the west. In rainy streams, kaloutak (egg shaped hill), polygons, salt each other and some of them have the shape of a a group of researchers. Based on the result of their seasons, rivers and streams sourced from these marsh and alluvial deposits. A wide range of the fist bulging from underground to the surface and observations, the river contained flowing water mountains flow toward the center of Lut desert and hollow's surface has been covered by polygons made a wonderful site. before the start of wet season and rainfalls. they enter a place which the water is accumulated Nevertheless, the length of the rivers and their and then is stored under ground. Generally this water discharge compared to the Rud-e Shur place is a piece of hard, rough and cracked land River are low but they have a crucial role in life called “Chaleh” in Persian meaning hollow in cycle and the life chain in Lut desert particularly in English. Rud-e Shur hollow appears from the Rud-e Shur Chaleh. north of Shahdad's Kaloutes (yardangs) in line Totally, it seems that the great Rud-e Shur Chaleh with northern domain of “Gandom-e Beryan” or Rud-e Shur hollow given its hidden sea and the stretching to the east, the margins of Dasht-e Sar life cycle created around it, is considered as a located in the center of Lut desert. The area of the wonderful natural phenomenon in Lut Desert that hollow is approximately 1000 square kilometers, is so attractive for researchers working in this field. considered as the biggest hollow in central Lut. There is a hope that introducing this place provide The west part of hollow is 280 meters above mean the situation for its promotion, better utilizing its sea level (its elevation) and the east part of the potentials and world registration of Lut desert as a hollow's elevation is 220 meters. At the western national and international geopark. part of the hollow where several rivers and (photos by: ehsan kabiry)