Demir baba teke is situated at the very heart of the Sboryanovo arheological reservation.
The excavations at the 16th century monastery Demir baba (Iron Father) reveal the millennial living traditions preserved in that part of the fertile valley of the Krapinets river. One of the two earliest tells in it(the second one being localized to the northeast of the Malak Porovets village)is found immediately next to the Alian monastery and is dated to the Chalcolithic Age(5th-4th millennium BC). Excavations outside the monastery courtyard revealed remains of wattle-and-daub dwellings, burials and numerous finds suggesting the high culture and the interesting religious notions of the population of the region during that time.