and from the excavation of palaces and tombs at Persepolis and Pasargadae. Cyrus the Great, who founded the Achaemenid dynasty around 550 BCE, and his successors Darius I and Xerxes invaded the lands ...
Fars’ deputy chief of cultural heritage has announced that 50 restoration projects are currently in progress across the ...
The palace building itself, considered the most well-preserved of the Achaemenid period, was excavated approximately 90 years ago by German archaeologist and Iranologist Ernst Herzfeld. Herzfeld, ...