This name belongs to the citizens of the region, where every height from the earth is called a tar, and it is mentioned in the Holy Quran as “Tour Sinin”, i.e. the mountain. These rocky heights extend from Karbala, Imam Ali Dropper Shrine to the Najaf sea, and it is made up of a group of caves surrounded by a number of valleys. Under the important site on the island, there are about 400 caves under which people lived. This rocky area was excavated by a Japanese mission, headed by professor Fuji, and during the analysis, the housing in those caves went back to the year 1300 BC.
Fuji believes that the analyzes of the tests conducted on the rocks of the caves indicated that they were artificially made by humans in the layers of rocks saturated with calcium bicarbonate around the year 1300 BC, and that the cause of pits or diggings is due to defensive purposes. The caves were then used to bury dead people who used to live therein.
These caves, thanks to their strategic location, were used by tribes and as stations for convoys coming from the desert, as well as a place of retreat for the clergy in the state of Al-Manathira, and they turned them into monasteries and places for seclusion and worship in certain periods, and then eventually turned into graves, according to what the excavation missions found.
