Takht-e Jamshid

Takht-e Jamshid

Also known as Persepolis

Year

-518

Type

landscape

Persepolis is the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, founded by Darius I around 518 BC on a half-natural, half-artificial terrace cut against the slope of Kuh-e Rahmat in the plain of Marvdasht. The complex is not a city in the or …

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