Cheshmeh-Ali (Shahr-e-Rey)

Cheshmeh-Ali (Persian: چشمه‌علی; "Spring of Ali") is an ancient recreational place, located in the south of Tehran and north of Rey or Ray in the country of Iran.

Cheshmeh Ali is a small Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement located within the suburbs of modern-day Tehran, south of the Elburz mountains.

[3] The Cheshmeh Ali cultural complex generally defines a Transitional Chalcolithic on the Iranian Central Plateau dating between 5500 and 4800 BC.

This painted pottery, also known as "Ismailabad ware", is found across northern Persia as far west as the area around Kashan, near Isfahan, and Qazvin to the north of there.

[5] Yet recent reexcavation of Cheshmeh Ali has also documented an earlier occupational phase.

Iranians washing and rolling carpets - 1960
A relief of Feth Ali Shah at Cheshmeh-Ali, near Tehran (illustration by Eugène Flandin in 1840)