Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war (1889)
Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna), 1835-1924 · London : T. Fisher Unwin ; New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 314
olated position and peculiar shape, rises nearlyperpendicular to a height of 1700 feet, the moststriking feature of the road from Hamadan (ancientAgbatana) to Baghdad, and near the modern townof KiRMANSHAH. On the straightest and smoothestface of the rock Dareios determined to perpetuate,by means… … 284 MEDIA, nABYLON, AND PllRSIA. indestructible, and, first of ;dl, inaccessible to thesacrilegious hand of invader or domestic foe. Thiswas so well secured by the height at which the workwas executed—over 300 feet from the base,—thatit could be scarcely got at for the purpose of study-ing or…
Zoroastrianism · Iran -- History · Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
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