Pasargad

Year

-550

Type

landscape

Pasargadae is the first dynastic capital of the Achaemenid Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great in the mid-sixth century BC on a high plain in Fars about 90 kilometers northeast of Persepolis. Rather than a tight palace platform, Cyrus laid o …

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