. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . Ruins of Stakhra. Takht-i Taus, or Rustams Thronk BUINS OF ANCIENT STAKHRA 307 by Alexander the Great; but we are not sure whether this Stronghold of Records was in the city on the plain, or locatedon the platform itself, as is more probable, having been trans-ferred thither under the later Achsemenians.^ In Sasaniantimes the city seems to have been well known as Stakhr; ^ butit appears to have lost its prestige with the lapse of time, andthe place was in ruins when Pietro della Valle
. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . Ruins of Stakhra. Takht-i Taus, or Rustams Thronk BUINS OF ANCIENT STAKHRA 307 by Alexander the Great; but we are not sure whether this Stronghold of Records was in the city on the plain, or locatedon the platform itself, as is more probable, having been trans-ferred thither under the later Achsemenians.^ In Sasaniantimes the city seems to have been well known as Stakhr; ^ butit appears to have lost its prestige with the lapse of time, andthe place was in ruins when Pietro della Valle visited it Broken columns, bases of pillars, and the remains ofan ancient gateway alone now mark its site. To one who isacquainted with the clay-built dwellings alike of the rich andpoor in Persia to-day, it is easy to understand how such a citycould crumble into dust, with the exception of the few stonecolumns that mark its site, particularly as Yakut ( 1220)expressly says, the houses of Istakhr are built of clay or ofstone covered over with plaster.* The southernmost point of this wide-extended but ill-defi
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