Situated on the celebrated Silk Road, modern Hamadan was once a place of magnificent splendour, an Achaemenid royal capital known in antiquity as Ecbatana.
Little evidence of that former glory remains. Today a visitor finds a town centred around a memorial to the Iran-Iraq war. One of the longest…
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It was a rare privilege on a snowy winter’s morning to gain permission to ascend the cliff face at Bisotun and come face to face with one of the most significant inscriptions of the entire ancient Near East, witnessing another testimony to God’s hand in world history.
Here in the Kermanshah…
Today, behind a plain brick wall on the outskirts of Tehran stands a 20 metre tall 12th Century tower commemorating Togrul Beg, the founder, in 1037, of the Seljuk Empire. This intriguing polygonal structure, with its 48 exterior faces (providing great stability) towers over the city of Ray, once …
