A tourist looks at columns of Persepolis, Wednesday, May 22, 2002. Resting at the
foot of craggy mountains about 850 kilometers (460 miles) south of Tehran. Persepolis
was a sprawling center for ceremonies and worship during the Achaemenian dynasty_
the first significant kingdom of ancient Persia. Industry and urban life are marching
toward Persepolis. The winds carry the menace: car exhaust, fumes from petrochemical
plants, clouds that spill acid rain. Earlier this month (May 13), a group of lawmakers
and intellecutuals issued an unusually blunt open letter demanding urgent conservation
efforts at Persepolis to avoid "national catastrophe."
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