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The magnificent remains of Persepolis provide a glimpse of Achaemenid wealth and power.
This has been true since Achaemenid times, as a visit to the ruins of their capital, Persepolis, will attest.
It saw the appearance and spread of Zoroastrianism, and some spectacular architecture at, for example, Darius' capital at Persepolis.
Our bus has been chugging uphill out of the city of Shiraz in southern Iran on the road to Persepolis, the ancient Persian capital.
The visual art that survives includes awe-inspiring stone friezes that are carved in delicate relief in the Assyrian manner from the Kings' palace at Persepolis.
Intended by the Achaemenid emperor Darius I to be his grand capital, Persepolis was torched by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. before it was even completed.
The first calendar was located in inscriptions at Persepolis, an ancient Persian city located near the present city of Shiraz that was the symbolic capital of the Achaemenids.
Persepolis overcomes this problem through two simple techniques.
The figures at Persepolis remain bound by the rules of grammar and syntax of visual language.
Archaeologists say that during the Achaemenid period Persepolis had an advanced drainage system for disposing of surface water.
Persepolis edged Rah Ahan 3-2 at Tehran's Azadi Stadium on Thursday evening.
A relief sculpture of Ahura Mazda stands among the ruins of Persepolis in Iran.
He has been all among the worshippers of Fire in Persia and has seen Persepolis and all that.
Leaving Russia, he traveled through Central Asia to Persia, where he stayed in Tabriz, Tehran, Persepolis, and Shiraz.
He sent the bulk of his army to the Persian ceremonial capital of Persepolis via the Persian Royal Road.
On entering Persepolis, Alexander allowed his troops to loot the city for several days.
Years later upon revisiting the city he had burnt, Alexander regretted the burning of Persepolis.
The reliefs at Persepolis show processions of figures bearing varied types of tribute.
It is located near the ruins of Persepolis and Pasargadae, two of the four capitals of the Achaemenid Empire.
Later Achaemenid used Urartu architecture in Pasargadae, Persepolis, and Susa Apadana.
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They did not come there directly from Persepolis or Susa, but from Mesopotamia.
It would have been madness to leave Ctesiphon unassailed, and to press forward against Susa and Persepolis.
Some of them bear a close resemblance to the bases of the columns at Persepolis.
According to Arrian, it was the castle of Persepolis which Alexander burned.
Persepolis was distinguished for the magnificence of the treasures which it contained.
Thebes, and Troy, and Persepolis, and Palmyra have vanished from the face of the earth.
The tombs near Persepolis are the finest which have yet been examined.
The gilding also is still preserved in the ruins of Persepolis.
This hill is now called Istakhar, and is quite distinct from Persepolis.
The jackals prowl, the serpents hiss In what was once Persepolis.
Iran's Persepolis team manager Mahmoud Khordbin confirmed that the club captain has passed away after a heart attack when he was asleep.
So well-girded Polycaste, the youngest daughter of Nestor, Neleus' son, was joined in love with Telemachus through golden Aphrodite and bare Persepolis.
He remarks that these show very little in common with the administrative Elamite texts found at Persepolis, indicating not only continuity but change over the centuries.
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