Sunday 21 September 2014

Naqsh-i Rustam - Incredible Reliefs Of Persian Empires

image credit: Erwin Bolwidt

Most people have heard of the ancient city of Persepolis in Iran. Yet just north of the metropolis of antiquity is a sheer cliff, known as Naqsh-i Rustam. Here, in the second millennium BCE, work began on a quite staggering series of rock reliefs which - even today - have the ability to awe in terms of their size and the staggering amount of work which must have been involved in their creation.

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