Photo of the Day

Picture of tourists standing in front of an elaborate rock carving near Tehran, Iran
April 11, 2021

Rock of Ages

In this photo from the April 1921 issue, tourists stand in front of a 19th-century rock carving just south of Tehran, Iran. At the end of 2020, the tourism department of Tehran Province announced that the carving would undergo repair and preservation processes to combat years of damage and erosion.
Photograph by F. E. Murray, Nat Geo Image Collection

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