A mirage called the treasure in the abandoned crypts

The fever of getting rich overnight has risen in North Khorasan these days, and many people enter into misguided ways called treasure hunting to achieve this dream, which sometimes costs their lives. In the terrifying darkness of the night, which leads the mind to the valley of illusions and ghosts, nothing can be seen clearly and no sound can be heard.

These are the people who search for their dreams in the heart of the soil and the bodies of mountains and historical monuments, and they search for their dreams without any purpose or plan, unaware that their action is quite futile.

The proverb “If you don’t take pain, you can’t find treasure” has been placed in the box of their oblivion, and most people are looking for a 100-year journey in one night, and it’s as if the dream of getting rich is no longer reserved for movies and stories, and shovels and shovels are in hand to find the treasure. They go to the mountains and the desert.

It is enough to visit some historical sites or old graves to see how due to unauthorized excavations, some ignorant people have made holes in these areas and these works that remind the history and events of the time are now painful to dig and explore.

In search of treasure, these uninformed people sometimes end up in the historical fortress “Balqis”, “Saluk Castle historical monument”, “Spakho historical complex” or “Hanameh Shirvan caves” and in the last case, one of these people in Sodai a To get rich, he went to search for treasure from “Bazdaghi” cave and inaccessible areas of Mane and Samalghan.

A person who surrendered himself to a path called treasure hunting and by losing his life left nothing for his family except suffering and bitter memories.

You may not believe it, but many of these ignorant people spend millions of tomans to buy treasure hunters and even listen to sweet nonsense from the mouths of swindlers.

Social networks are full of so-called historians and archeologists who have set up shop for themselves by taking advantage of people’s ignorance and delivering sweet nonsense about treasure sites.

Apart from selling treasure detectors, these fraudsters give clues about the location of the treasure to uninformed people and lead them with shovels and picks to places that bring them suffering instead of treasure.

No wise person will reveal the burial place of the treasure

If you refer to the thoughts of these people, there is no reason to convince them that this is nothing more than a mirage. These people are based on the strict theory that in the past, when anyone was buried, historical and valuable objects were also buried with them. Old and abandoned cemeteries are known as the target point of these people.

One of the archaeologists of North Khorasan says in this regard: If you study the social status of people in various historical periods, you will understand that the majority of the people of that time did not have a good livelihood to be buried with valuable objects.

Ali Akbar Vahdati adds: Valuable objects were reserved for a certain class and all of them are usually not buried with jewels or valuable objects, on the other hand, no wise person will reveal the burial place of his precious objects so that people of this time can easy to achieve.

This Khorasan archeologist states: Usually, in the case of burying valuable objects, the ancients tried to mislead the aggressors in various ways.

Vahdati states: During my 28 years of professional work in this field, I managed to find gold only 2 times during archeology, and it was very little, so I ask people not to be deceived by these fraudsters and lose their lives The bodies of the caves do not cause trouble.

Arrest of 21 illegal diggers

The commander of the protection unit of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts of North Khorasan says in this regard: 21 unauthorized diggers of the historical sites of the province have been arrested since the beginning of this year with the cooperation of the people and law enforcement and security institutions, and 20 of these violators have been sentenced by the judicial authorities. has done.

Colonel Khalil Hajizadeh adds: These people have been arrested in connection with eight unauthorized excavations in the historical and cultural heritage areas of North Khorasan.

He continues: In this connection, five metal detectors, a large number of digging tools and pieces of clay pots were also discovered.

Colonel Hajizadeh states that there is no treasure under any unwritten stone or old graves, and states: Many people in North Khorasan, in search of treasure and getting rich, take a dangerous path, which in most cases is not only a waste of time, but also It has resulted in serious personal and financial injuries for them.

The commander of the protection unit of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts of North Khorasan adds: We ask people to be aware and not to destroy Iran’s civilization and history for nothing.

He reminded: According to Article 562 of the Islamic Penal Code, any digging and exploration for the purpose of obtaining historical and cultural property is prohibited, and people who do this will be imprisoned from 6 months to 3 years, and the uncovered objects are also for the benefit of the country’s cultural heritage. Drilling tools and equipment are confiscated for the benefit of the government.

Col. Hajizadeh clarifies: If digging is done in historical places and areas in the list of national monuments or in blessed places and religious places, in addition to confiscating the discovered objects and digging tools, the perpetrator will be sentenced to the maximum punishment.

The number of works registered in the province in the list of national monuments is 621 historical, natural and intangible works, of which 509 historical works, 42 natural works, 70 intangible works and 11 works have been registered globally.

With a population of one million people, this province has 115 tourist attractions, 24 national and provincial model areas and eight tourist target villages, making it a pristine destination for nature lovers and those interested in the culture and rituals of different ethnic groups.