Bahrām Beyzāyī’s Death of Yazdgerd (1982) is a poetic imagining of the mysterious death of Yazdgerd III, the last Sasanian king of Iran. In 651, amid the Arab invasions that brought Islam into this Zoroastrian realm, Yazdgerd, pressed from the west, fled east to Marv and took refuge in a mill, where he was slain. Although his body was discovered in the mill, the exact circumstances of his death, and even the fate of his remains, are left uncertain.
