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 84
ery point of the frontierand run their barriers into the interior to hold back the greatdeserts which threaten to invade from the east. A part of thevast tableland is well watered, but there are no rivers in Persiathat are worthy of the name, and most of them lose their streamsin the soil before… … The Dieulafoy Frieze of Archers from Susa ONE OF THE GREAT NATIONS OF ANTIQUITY 25 wise arid districts into arable lands or to prevent them fromsinking back into barren wastes. Irrigation was synonymouswith righteousness in the old Zoroastrian religion, and agricul-ture a religious duty. The soil…
Zoroastrianism
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