Tappa Gawri

Tappa Gawri is an archaeological site in the Kermanshah, in Iran, about 240 m from the south of the Ashayer Blvd (former Sanjabi Street). Tappa Gawri is one of the four mound sites in Kermanshah city. The other mound sites are Chogha Kaboud, Chogha Golan, and Morad Hasel. Tappeh Gawri includes two mounds, the larger is located north and is 400 m by 300 m and about 7 m high. The southern mound is 200 m by 160 m and about 3 m high. The site was recorded during an initial season of archaeological research in the Kermanshah and Mahidasht valleys, in the summer of 1975, by a team directed by Louis D. Levine from the Royal Ontario Museum, with the assistance of the Iranian Centre for Archaeological Research. They found surface archaeological material date to Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Parthian, and Sassanian periods.