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No ground, no sky, nothing but the stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe stepped plinth with every course drawn separately, wide at the base and tightening upward\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe gabled chamber above, its doorway open and dark\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWeathering, chipped corners and lost blocks left in rather than tidied away\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStipple and fine hatching for the limestone, dense in shadow and open in light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePure black on white, no border\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eCyrus was buried at Pasargadae around 530 BC, in a chamber built of ashlar blocks fitted without mortar. The reason it is still standing has little to do with reverence for him. After the Islamic conquest the Achaemenids were largely forgotten, and the building was taken locally for the tomb of the mother of Solomon — \u003cem\u003eQabr-e Madar-e Solayman\u003c\/em\u003e. It was treated as a shrine on that basis for centuries, and in the thirteenth century a mosque was built around it using columns carted over from Persepolis. 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