I visited an old ruined castle in Mesr, a small village near to Kavir. The castle had many different rooms. Some of the rooms had many empty pots. Some were broken, and many were standing silently thru history.
No body was there to ask about the content of them.
Either people were storing foods in them or precious stuff.
For sure if they had precious stuff, for sure all were stolen and sold to middlemen and sent out of country.

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