The Tombs of Esther and Mordecai โ€“ Hamadan

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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