About two weeks ago, members of the Khuzestan Cultural Heritage Lovers Society (Tariana) and the Bum-o-Aftab Cultural Heritage Lovers Society have discovered a number of sandstone rocks bearing 11 petroglyphs of ibex and human forms, the Persian service of the Mehr News Agency reported on Saturday.
Four other petroglyphs of ibex and human forms had been discovered by a cultural heritage expert at the site a year ago.
The traffic of the giant excavators working for the Khuzestan Environment Department may cause destruction of the petroglyphs, Tariana spokesman Mojtaba Gahestuni said.
Tariana has officially warned the Khuzestan Environment Department and the Khuzestan Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Department about its fear of destruction of the artifacts.
However, they have made no moves so far to halt the excavating at the site, he lamented.
He also said that the petroglyphs are in danger of erosion from the passage of local citizens by the site every day.
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