Other areas such as Hamadan may also experience lichen growth, but to a lesser extent.” The presence of lichens on Iran’s ancient monuments remains a conservation challenge, but experts stress that ...

or modern Takht-e Jamshid is an ancient capital of the kings of the Achaemenian dynasty of Iran (Persia), located about 50 km northeast of Shiraz in the Fars region of southwestern Iran. In 1979 the ...