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The Myth Continues
The writer Jane Dieulafoy (1851-1916) accompanied her husband, the French archaeologist Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy, to Iran in the 1880s. She took many photographs of sites -- including Pasargadae -- that the couple later used to illustrate their publications. Although the two knew that these were part of Cyrus's capital, Mrs. Dieulafoy followed the prevailing view that the tomb belonged to a woman. Here, she transformed the columns of the thirteenth-century mosque into an imaginary ancient reconstruction. |