Chaleh Tarkhan

Chaleh Tarkhan (Persian: چاله طرخان)[a] is a village in, and the capital of, Chaleh Tarkhan Rural District of Qaleh Now District of Ray County, Tehran province, Iran.

[4] At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 658 in 172 households, when it was in Qaleh Now Rural District of Kahrizak District.

[4] Stucco wall decorations, dating from the Sassanid Empire, are preserved at Chaleh Tarkhan.

In the late 1930s, Erich Schmidt of the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Museum, in collaboration with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, led an expedition that excavated Chaleh Tarkhan.

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