Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map (1906)
Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 714
sand-heap into a cultivatedplot of ground, but otherwise desolation reigns everywhere. To the modern Persians Rei is known chiefly as the placeadjoining the shrine of Shah Abdul Azim, which is visitedannually by thousands of pilgrims and within whose precinctsthe late Shah, Nasr ad-Din, was… … M- < ANTIQUITY OF THE RUINS AT RE I 429 Upon a hill in a northeasterly direction from Rei is theZoroastrian Tower of Silence, where the Gabars expose theirdead. Among the ruins at Rei there are some which have aspecial interest, and I shall therefore describe them in detail;but one of the chief…
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