"The hall it decorated could hold several thousand guests, besides space for a hundred body guards to stand on each side of the throne.

As many weavers, embroiderers and jewellers as there are days in the year worked on it, they say, for the years of a man's life.

The woven picture represented paradise as the Persians imagine it--full of green trees, flowers and fruits.

Here you can still see a fragment of the sparkling fountain which, when seen from a distance, with its sprinkling of diamonds, sapphires and emeralds, looked like living water.

Here the pearls represent the foam on a wave.