Mystery Making Throughout the Great Wall of Gorgan 195 Km

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Part of the great wall of Gorgan. Photo

Talking about the great wall, yangg definitely comes to mind is the Great Wall of China, which is very long stretches. Bahkanaking length, wall besarini able to be seen from space.

Problem making, certainly do not need the time, cost and labor slightly. But that's great this country, which is able to create something that looked impossible, be there even without the aid of technology at the time.

But who would have thought, if the Great Wall is not only in China. There was also a great wall of Gorgan, where this is a series of ancient fortress, situated near Gorgan in Golestan Province northeast Iran, on the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea.

Great wall has a length of about 195 kilometers, and including the second-longest defense, after the Great Wall of China, as the defensive walls of the longest ever. But who made it, until today, no one knows.

The map shows tembokbesar Gorgan.

Theories range that the Great Wall relics of Alexander the Great, in the 4th century BC, berdaarkan instructions of the Persian king Khusrau in the 6th century. But the archaeological and scientific evidence shows that the walls were built in the 5th or 6th century AD, the Sassanid Empire.

This makes the Great Wall has a life of almost two thousand years, and older than the Great Wall of China. And even more impressive is that this wall when it was built more solidly than the Great Wall of China.

The walls are made of tens of millions of standard red bricks, which are made of local loess soil. The red brick walls give it the nickname of "Red Snake".

The length of this wall extends up from the Caspian Sea, while to the east running into unexplored mountains of Elburz Mountains. This wall has a length of at least 195 kilometers and a width of 6-10 meters.

Researchers estimate that about 30,000 troops stationed along this wall to keep the defense from enemy attack. Today, many of the ancient walls that have become ruins, and eroded both by wind and water.

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