UPDATE: Train Vibrations Threaten Tomb of King Xerxes

LONDON, (CAIS) -- Vibrations caused by passing trains are likely to broaden existing cracks in the tomb of Xerxes I and result in its collapse if a nearby railway route becomes operational, archaeologist Mohammad-Taqi Ataii said during a seminar at the University Of Tehran (UT) on September 11.

In addition to Kaba of Zoroaster, King Xerxes Tomb also will be destroyed if Esfahan-Shiraz Railway Project to be constructed

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LONDON, (CAIS) -- In addition to destruction kf Kaba of Zoroaster less than 10 years, also based on existing evidence such as the cracks which exist on the body of Xerxes’ and the other Achaemenid imperial tombs in Naqsh-e Rostam, and the close distance of Esfahan-Shiraz railway to this historic site, experts give a strong possibility that the rumbling of the trains would break the tomb of Xerxes in two halves.