Starts october 8th on d, w. Ah, ah iran, louis a vast country, often called the cradle of civilization from the persian gulf to the caspian sea, from snow kept Mountain Ranges to era desert. Its the country both fertile and astir. A study in contrast, as is the culture and way of life, of its 80000000 inhabitants a country and its people. A run at the intersection of tradition and change a country with few outside visitors. For many foreigners, iran is the place of paradise and live. But it is home to a 1000 year old culture in which a variety of lifestyles, traditions, and religions co exist. Mountain ranges, desert plateaus, the plains, and valleys of be filmed from above. This spectacular landscape serve as a lens on to the countrys history and its people. Ah, the mountains, wild and untouched, tamed and domesticated cover, one 3rd of irans territory their distant peaks have played an Important Role in the countrys history. Heading west towards the airport, massif. The mountains hav
In October of 2000, police in Karachi, Pakistan received a lead that a man by the name of Ali Akbar was attempting to sell a mummy on the black antiquities market for 600 million rupees, or about $11 million, and it was no ordinary mummy, but rather what was advertised as a “Persian Princess.” When police raided the home of Akbar, he folded under interrogation and led them to the house of his co-conspirator, Wali Mohammad Reeki, who lived in the rural desert region in the province of Baluchistan. There they found the mummy in question, along with its sarcophagus, and Reeki admitted that he had purchased the mummy from a man named Sharif Shah Bakhi after he had found it in the aftermath of an earthquake near Quetta, on the border of Iran and Afghanistan. The men were arrested, but the mystery of the mummy was just beginning, leading down a rabbit hole of strange artifacts, intrigue, and murder.