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 92
nand even to attract attention and some followers in theOccident. In art and architecture Persia is renowned for the grandeurof some of her ancient monuments and for the beauty anddecorative design of much of her later work. In both thesefields she is believed to have borrowed in early times… … The Portal of Xerxes at Persepolis RELIGION, ARCHITECTURE, AND LANGUAGE 29 freely, added much, and made the production so character-istically her own as often to bring forth a new creation; andif she has accepted gifts in artistic lines from China, it wasonly in part return for generous loans…
Zoroastrianism
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