A team of British archeologists will arrive in Iran to study five mummies discovered earlier in a salt mine in Iran's northern Zanjan province.

Iranian archeologist Abulfazl Auli said the British team will try to analyze the DNA of the mummies and resolve any ambiguities about the cause of death in some of the mummies.

Archeologists discovered the five mummies in the Chehr Abad salt mine and have since named them the "salt men".

Analysis has revealed so far that the first two salt men belonged to the Sassanid era (226-651) and that the other three mummies date as far back as the Achaemenid period some 500 years earlier.

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