Pollution at the Bazaar

Pollution at the Bazaar
Greetings from the other side

Monday, December 6, 2010

Museums

Besides the rug museum and the Shah's palaces, I also saw Golestan Palace from the Qajjar Dynasty in the 19th century as well as the old Qajjar center which now houses the Ancient Museum. Outside, there were beautiful orange and red roses that bloomed all winter and seemed to have an inner flaming glow.
I also saw the Cyrus Cylinder, on loan from the British Museum, but I couldn't really take a picture of it. This little cylinder is the first Bill of Human Rights for a society ever found. The Cyrus Cylinder is a legacy of Cyrus the Great - the Persian emperor famed for freeing the Jews of ancient Babylon after conquering the city in 539 BC.













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