Bam is a small town in the middle of the desert on the southern edge of Iranian high plateau. Its origin dates back to the Achaemenid period (6th to 4th centuries). Its enormous citadel, Arg-e-Bam, was built sometimes about 500 BC and before the 2003 earthquake destroyed more than 80 percent of the Citadel it was considered to be the biggest and most beautiful mud-brick complex in the world.

The entire building with an area of approximately 180,000 square meters is a large fortress in whose heart and the highest place the citadel itself is located. It is surrounded by gigantic walls and is holding two mosques, a public bath, military barracks, a caravanserai, water wells, a Bazaar, a stable, a jail, about 400 houses and more.

Now the reconstruction of the Bam Citadel is underway.

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