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After a long journey which took us from kermanshah to sarpol-e Zahab, while on the road back to Kermanshah we left the main road trying to go to Qhaleh ye Ardeshir, a Parthian era fortress. Unfortunatly, time was too short and we decided to turn back. We then, saw a strange cemetery close to the road, I can’t locate exactly the place. The cemetery looked very old, and was in a very nice and peaceful place. The place had some modern stone made vaulted buildings, their style clearly look unchanged since the iwans of the old sasanians. Some strange brick tower-shaped constructions could be seen, that I don’t know exactly what it is. The surprise lay in the very old gravestones left abandoned, partially buried, some laying down out of the soil. Some of them dated probably of the early Islamic era as testify the patterns sculptured. Rosettes flowers, stylized Cyprus trees, all well known old Persian figures, which took their origins directly in the ancient Iran. Such figures are still used in the patterns of nomad carpets. In fact, this nowhere lost place was worth a visit and some pictures. Another old gravestone with 2 crossed bones, Rosette flower, and stylized Cyprus trees; such figures are typical of the ancient era, and testify of the long term survival of the Persian culture through the Islamic era.