Persepolis New Persian: Takht-e Jamshid literally meaning “city of Persians”, was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550–330 BC)
Persepolis New Persian: Takht-e Jamshid literally meaning “city of Persians”, was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550–330 BC)
Persepolis is situated 70 km northeast of city of Shiraz in the Fars Province in Iran. The earliest remains of Persepolis date from around 515 BC. It exemplifies the Achaemenid style of architecture. UNESCO declared the citadel of Persepolis a World Heritage Site in 1979. Archaeological evidence shows that the earliest remains of Persepolis date from around 515 BC. André Godard, the French archaeologist who excavated Persepolis in the early 1930s, believed that it was Cyrus the Great (Kūrosh) who chose the site of Persepolis, but that it was Darius I (Daryush) who built the terrace and the great palaces. View the JameJam news agency’s pictorial: “Framed Perspolis” below:
