Rescue excavations at Mersin (Semnan, Iran) reveal a tightly patterned Achaemenid-period cemetery. Thirty-four graves, excavated between 2014 and 2024, combine local mortuary traditions with imperial-era objects, demonstrating how provincial communities selectively adopted imperial markers to negotiate identity and refining narratives for the empire’s north-eastern interior.

The Achaemenid cemetery of Mersin (Semnan Province, Iran): local identities and imperial connections on the northern Iranian plateau / Malekzadeh, M., Naseri, R., Fausti, E., Cesaretti, A., Dan, R.. - In: ANTIQUITY. - ISSN 1745-1744. - 100:411(2026). [10.15184/aqy.2026.10317]

The Achaemenid cemetery of Mersin (Semnan Province, Iran): local identities and imperial connections on the northern Iranian plateau

Elena Fausti;
2026

Abstract

Rescue excavations at Mersin (Semnan, Iran) reveal a tightly patterned Achaemenid-period cemetery. Thirty-four graves, excavated between 2014 and 2024, combine local mortuary traditions with imperial-era objects, demonstrating how provincial communities selectively adopted imperial markers to negotiate identity and refining narratives for the empire’s north-eastern interior.
2026
Achaemenid; burial assemblages; mortuary archaeology; western Asia
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The Achaemenid cemetery of Mersin (Semnan Province, Iran): local identities and imperial connections on the northern Iranian plateau / Malekzadeh, M., Naseri, R., Fausti, E., Cesaretti, A., Dan, R.. - In: ANTIQUITY. - ISSN 1745-1744. - 100:411(2026). [10.15184/aqy.2026.10317]
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