About 12 km northwest of the Iranian city of Persepolis, lies a rocky hill.

This area is known as Naqsh-e Rustam, and also as Necropolis.

It depicts a faint image of a man with unusual head-gear and is thought to be Elamite in origin.

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The tombs were looted following the conquest of the Achaemenid empire by Alexander the Great.

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