Zagheh Hill

The Zagheh hill is located in the town of Saggez Ābād, in the province of Boyinzahrā (Qazvin region) and dates back to the sixth and seventh millennium BC

This almost round-shaped hill with an area of ​​20000 square meters, considered one of the primordial hills of Iran, was located on the plateau of Qazvin and the architecture of its buildings was mostly in layers and in bricks. the roofs were used wooden beams.

The walls were covered with straw and mud and geometric patterns were drawn on them. Some places were decorated with broken earthenware. All the houses had a main door on the road leading to the main square of the village (in the excavations, 21 houses were extracted from the ground).

Some homes had an oven to bake bread and pots to store food and water supplies. The dead were buried in the village with gifts. After the end of the 6th millennium BC this place was completely abandoned and its inhabitants emigrated to another place.

Some of the objects found in the Zāgheh hills are: simple terracotta dishes with figures, spherical, conical and cylindrical rython, seals, small statues of man and animal, blades and stone, bone and copper finds.

To date, over two thousand archaeological sites have been recognized in the Qazvin plateau, and the antiquity of some dates back to over eight thousand years ago; this area since ancient times has been a place of passage and emigration of human groups.