A view of the site of the Taq-e-Bostan, tucked away in the Zagros mountains. A nearby sacred springs feeds the pond in front of the carved iwans.
The Taq-e-Bostan (“arch of stone”) is a site 5 km from Kermanshah in Western Iran, famous for the well-preserved Sassanian rock carvings that it contains in two grottos treated as iwans. There are two iwans, one larger than the other.
Photograph created May 1963. Photograph processed September 1963. Formerly catalogued as B45.725, K.087. Notes written on the slide or index: Taq-i Bustan.
