Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . TOMBS OF THE LATER ACH^MENIANS 319 enumerates the conquests of Darius, concluding with the prayerthat Peace may come from Aura. ^ As I stood at the foot ofthe rampart to collate the tablets high above and make noteswhich I hope later to publish, the suns rays were so scorchingand the flies so pestiferous that I could understand the kingsneed for a chowri and an umbrella in ancient days! The remaining point of historic interest connected withPersepolis is the series of three tombs hewn i
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . TOMBS OF THE LATER ACH^MENIANS 319 enumerates the conquests of Darius, concluding with the prayerthat Peace may come from Aura. ^ As I stood at the foot ofthe rampart to collate the tablets high above and make noteswhich I hope later to publish, the suns rays were so scorchingand the flies so pestiferous that I could understand the kingsneed for a chowri and an umbrella in ancient days! The remaining point of historic interest connected withPersepolis is the series of three tombs hewn in the rocky hillof Kuh-i Rahmat behind the platform. They are the sepulchresof three later kings of the Achsemenian line and resemble thefour elder tombs at Naksh-i Rustam, which have been alreadydescribed; but owing to the nature of the hillside where theyare cut they differ from the latter in minor details, especiallyin being less high from the ground and therefore easy of first of the three is hewn in the face of the rock almostdirectly back of the Hall of a Hundred Columns and is com-monl
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