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Image Not Available for "A father and son bathe at Ishker hot springs. Some of the medicinal baths around Ramsar are surrounded by walls built with radioactive stone, which is believed to give the water healing properties. Ramsar, Iran, 2015"
"A father and son bathe at Ishker hot springs. Some of the medicinal baths around Ramsar are surrounded by walls built with radioactive stone, which is believed to give the water healing properties. Ramsar, Iran, 2015"
Image Not Available for "A father and son bathe at Ishker hot springs. Some of the medicinal baths around Ramsar are surrounded by walls built with radioactive stone, which is believed to give the water healing properties. Ramsar, Iran, 2015"
Object Number 2019.5.2.25
Display Title "A father and son bathe at Ishker hot springs. Some of the medicinal baths around Ramsar are surrounded by walls built with radioactive stone, which is believed to give the water healing properties. Ramsar, Iran, 2015"
Descriptions
Classification
  • Print
Department Photographic
Date 2015
Artist Chloe Dewe Mathews (2010)
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Iran / Mazandaran Province / Ramsar County / Ramsar
Materials Print, color
Quantity 1
Credit Line Robert Gardner Fellow

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"Bathers at the Ishker hot springs. The walls around Ramsar's numerous medicinal baths were built with local stone, and the healing benefit of the water is sometimes attributed to this radioactive building material. Ramsar, Iran, 2015"
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