A road journey across a featureless plain surrounded by the Zagros mountains took us to the tomb of Cyrus, a kind of stepped pyramid surmounted by a stone ark.

• 一条道路横亘在札格洛斯山所包围的一片景致单调的高原上，领著我们到居鲁士的陵墓前，这个墓有几分像阶梯金字塔，上头再覆盖一个石制的平底船。