Tombs

23 photos of the Al Ayn tombs, a set of bronze age tombs in beehive shape in northern Oman

27 photos of the Imam Reza Holy Shrine in Mashhad, Iran, with its beautiful domes and courtyards

20 photos of the beautiful Boq'eh-ye Khajeh Rabi mausoleum which lies north of Mashhad

21 photos of the tomb of Ferdowsi in Tus, one of the greatest Iranian poets

16 photos of the tomb of Hafez in Shiraz, one of the most significant Iranian poets

13 photos of the tomb of the famous Iranian poet Saadi in Shiraz

16 photos of the Towers of Silence, two circular structures on hilltops near Yazd used by people of Zoroastrian faith for the disposal of their dead

14 photos of The Mountain of the Dead, a hill in Siwa oasis with many Ptolemaic and Roman period tombs

16 photos of the German World War II memorial in El Alamein

18 photos of the El Alamein Italian World War II memorial

30 photos of the Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara, famous for the step pyramid of Djoser

64 photos of the pyramids in Giza and Saqqara

19 photos of the Hili archaeological park, a UNESCO world heritage site dating back to the the 3rd millennium BC

30 photos of the mausoleum of Emir Ali in Shiraz with its impressive mirror mosaic interior

6 photos of the tombs of Artaxerxes II and III in Persepolis

33 photos of Pasargadae, the ancient Persian capital and a UNESCO World Heritage Site

75 photos of the Ming tombs near Beijing, where 13 of the 16 emperors of the Ming dynasty are buried