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Altered Face II

The tombs of the Achaemenid kings Darius 1, Artaxerxes 1 and Xerxes 1 (l. to r.) carved out of the rock face from 4-500 BC. The entrance to each tomb at the centre of the cross opens onto to a small chamber containing the king's sarcophagus. The façades are thought to be replicas of the entrance of the palace at Persepolis. Fars, Iran, 2008

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The tombs of the Achaemenid kings Darius 1, Artaxerxes 1 and Xerxes 1 (l. to r.) carved out of the rock face from 4-500 BC. The entrance to each tomb at the centre of the cross opens onto to a small chamber containing the king's sarcophagus. The façades are thought to be replicas of the entrance of the palace at Persepolis. Fars, Iran, 2008