Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . THE APPROACH TO THE RUINS 281 believes that it was the Tomb of Cambyses, the father ofCyrus ; Curzon agrees that it was a sepulchre, even if he doesnot go so far as to assign it definitely to the father of scholars unite on one point, in comparing it with a similaredifice near the tombs of the kings at Naksh-i Rustam, and Ibelieve that most of them are correct in supporting the viewthat the edifice was an Achsemenian shrine of fire, as I shallmaintain in the next chapter. ^ Bu
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . THE APPROACH TO THE RUINS 281 believes that it was the Tomb of Cambyses, the father ofCyrus ; Curzon agrees that it was a sepulchre, even if he doesnot go so far as to assign it definitely to the father of scholars unite on one point, in comparing it with a similaredifice near the tombs of the kings at Naksh-i Rustam, and Ibelieve that most of them are correct in supporting the viewthat the edifice was an Achsemenian shrine of fire, as I shallmaintain in the next chapter. ^ But scarcely a stone of theonly wall that survives is in its exact position to tell the storyof the past. The present dilapidation of the building, the hard,cold whiteness of the stone, and the contrast which it showedto the soft green of April that freshly decked the plain, as itdoes ever anew, made a vivid impression upon me. Several hundred yards farther southward is a solitary shaft,nearly twenty feet high and broken at the top. It is com-posed of three blocks, as shown by my photograph, and looksas i
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