Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
A shepherd takes a break from herding goats, Zagros Mountains (
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, near Firuz Abad
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Ancient Civilisations
From the Elamites to the Sassanians via the Achaemenids, Iran has hosted some of the an-
cient world's greatest civilisations. What's left of them must have been well built. The
first four are World Heritage Sites.
Choqa Zanbil
The Elamites built this huge, 12th-century BC brick ziggurat in honour of
their chief god and it survives largely because it was lost under the sands until 1935 (
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Persepolis
The full glory of the Achaemenid period in one magnificent former summer
capital (
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