Yesterday I saw the remains of an ancient city called Bishapur, 130km west of Shiraz. Bishapur was the capital of the Sassanid king Shapur I (241-272 AD). In the ruined city not much was left standing but across the road in a canyon there were some beautiful rock carvings. Some of them depicted the defeat of the romans by this emperor others contained coronation scenes. The one depicting a meeting with Arab bedoins was particularly beautiful.
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