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Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World
Brown University
Box 1837 / 60 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: (401) 863-3188
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Siraf was an ancient Sassanid port located on the north shore of the Persian Gulf in present-day Iran. The Persian Gulf was used as an important shipping route between the Arabian peninsula and the Far East in the years before Islam and in the first several centuries of Islam; the port was destroyed in 970. Excavations in Siraf of objects from places like Africa, India and Afghanistan suggest this port's significance in intercontinental trade, which continued with the rise of the Islamic world.