Dwarf Skeleton Could Be On Makhunik?

 

Makhunik is a village in South Khorasan Province of Iran and it is believe during ancient times dwarfs live in the area or it is called “City of Dwarfs”(Shahr-e Kotouleha) and it was discovered in Shahdad Kerman province where recently a smuggled dwarf skeleton believe it was belong to it measuring 25 cm in height.

“Only dwarfs could utilize the walls, ceiling, furnaces, shelves, and all of the equipment. Rumors spread about the finding of a dwarf’s bones after uncovering the City of Dwarfs in Shahdad and legends about the people who lived there. The most recent example included the finding of a diminutive mummy measuring 25 cm in height. The traffickers planned to sell it in Germany for 80 billion rials.

The news of the arrest of two smugglers and the discovery of a strange mummy spread fast across Kerman province. Subsequently, Kerman Cultural Heritage Department and police officials sat down to clarify the condition of the mummy that reportedly belongs to a 17-year-old person.

Some archaeologists are cautious and even deny the city of Makhunik was once inhabited by ancient dwarfs. “Since forensic studies could not determine the sexuality of the corpse, we can not rely on them to talk about the height and the age of the body, and more anthropological studies are still needed to find out the details about the discovery,” says Javadi, archeologist of the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization of Kerman province.

“Even if it is proved that the corpse belongs to a dwarf, we can not say for sure that the region of its discovery in Kerman province was the city of dwarfs. This is a very old region, which has been buried due to geographical changes. Besides, technology was not so developed at that time so people may not have been able to build high walls for their houses,” he adds.

“Regarding the fact that in none of the periods in the history of Iran, we have had mummies, it is not accepted at all that this corpse is mummified. If this corpse is found to belong to Iran, it would be a fake one. Due to the minerals existing in the soil of this region, all of the skeletons here are decayed and no intact skeleton has been found so far.”(News Tangail 24)

But experts deny about the existence of little people or dwarfs in ancient Iran claiming the discovered skeleton belongs to a 17-year-old person and how could a skeleton exist in Shahdad where no skeletons could survived on it due to some minerals in it that makes skeleton decays.

image from News Tangail 24 website