"Travel in Iran"

Monuments of Iran

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Notes of this trip (2000)

Isfahan

Isfahan: the main Mosque

Ancient Persia, 150-200 kms from Isfahan. The tomb of Cyrus (700 BC), the man who founded the Persian empire. A very old relief carved in the rock. The royal tombs carved in the mountain in Naqsh Rostam (the rightmost tomb is Darius', son of Cyrus and greatest of all Persian emperors).

Bam

Naqsh Rostam

Ancient inscription near Naqsh Rostam

Ancient Persia: Persepolis, the ancient capital of the empire of Persia, when Persia ruled over most of the Middle East and Egypt. The Greeks destroyed it in 300 BC.

Persepolis

The ancient Silk-road city of Bam

Bam

Yazd, the Towers of Silence. Near Yazd, there remain three of the towers that the Zoroastrans built for their sky burials. The second picture is how it looks when you're at the top. The hole is where they would lie the corpse for the birds to eat it.

Towers of silence

Yazd, a city of unusual architecture

Yazd

The main mosque, courtesy of Parisa Fallahi

(Some of these pictures were used with my permission for the BBC series "Waking the Dead")

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