Things to find in Iran
4 legends, 1 haunted place, 1 cave on the free Club 49 adventure map
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- Ali Sadr Cave Cave
One of the largest water caves in the world, in the mountains of Hamadan Province, Iran, and among the very few you tour by boat, gliding in silence through miles of flooded passage under a ceiling of pale formations reflected in...
Open it on the map - Chogha Zanbil Legend
The largest ziggurat outside Mesopotamia and the best preserved of any stepped pyramid of its kind, built around 1250 BC by the Elamite king Untash-Napirisha for the god Inshushinak, 30 km southeast of Susa. It was 105.2 metres...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Naqsh-e Rostam Legend
A cliff 13 km from Persepolis with four Achaemenid kings cut into it high above the ground: Darius the Great, Xerxes I, Artaxerxes I and Darius II, each tomb front carved as a cross with the king standing at a fire altar. Below...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Persepolis Legend
The ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid empire, begun under Darius I with the earliest remains dating to 515 BC and added to by Xerxes I and Artaxerxes I. The thing to walk slowly is the Apadana staircase, where the carved...
Open it on the map · Read the story - The Towers of Silence, Yazd Haunted place
Zoroastrians hold earth, fire and water sacred and will not pollute them with a corpse, so for centuries the dead were carried up to circular stone towers, dakhma, open to the sky, and left for the vultures; the bones were later...
Open it on the map - The windcatchers of Yazd Legend
A badgir is a tower that air conditions a building with no power at all, and Yazd is full of them. Two things drive it. Wind pressure does most of the work. The stack effect does the rest, warm air rising and pulling cooler air...
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