Geoy Tepe

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{{short description|Archaeological site in West Azarbaijan Province, Iran}}

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File:Cylinder with a ritual scene ,early 2nd millennium B.C. Geoy Tepe Iran.jpg

Geoy Tepe (also Gök Tepe) is an archaeological site in northwestern Iran, about 7 kilometers south of Urmia (Reżāʾīya), Gug Tappeh. It was found by an aerial survey of ancient sites in Persia done by Erich Schmidt in the 1930s.

The site's mound is {{Convert | 80 | ft}} tall and is situated by a natural spring. T. Burton Brown of Great Britain excavated the site in August 1948. It was found to have been continuously occupied from the 4th millennium BCE until 1200 BCE.BURTON-BROWN, T. \95l. Excavations in Azerbaijan, 1948. John Murray, London

Remains of the earliest stage of the Kura–Araxes culture have been found here.

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