Shahr-I Sokhta and Its Masonry Walls from Structural and Seismicity Standpoint
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Mohammad Mehdi Masoumi
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| Transactions of the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Civil Engineering Series |
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2014, Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 99-107
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Doi: 10.2478/tvsb-2014-0025
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Shahr-I Sokhta, Burned City, located in the south of Zabol, Sistan where founded circa 3200 BCE and some part of the city was burnt. Marvelous finds such as the world's earliest known artificial eyeball, the first animation in the world, the oldest known backgammon, with its dice and so forth all in this city. Their expertise was merely not in handicrafts. In this work provided evidences which Burned City’s walls are highly resistance against seismic loads and has engineering aspects, a wall was simulated by a finite element software and seismically considerations was approve the walls minimal deformation even after circa five thousand years.
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