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» Human Sacrifice Was Common in Burnt City
   From Iran News, 5000-year-old burnt city, in eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, sacrificing human beings was a common practice in ancient times.
   http://www.payvand.com/news/04/dec/1220.html

» Wikipedia - Shahr-i Sokhta
   Encyclopedic entry for Shahr-e Sukhteh or Shahr-i Sokhta(literally Burnt City), a Bronze Age urban settlement in the southeast of Iran.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnt_city

» World's Oldest Backgammon Discovered In Burnt City
   From Iran News, Iranian archeologists working on the relics of the 5,000-year-old civilization argue this backgammon is much older than the one already discovered in Mesopotamia and their evidence is strong enough to claim the board game was first played
   http://www.payvand.com/news/04/dec/1029.html