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Persepolis #3

Posted by Saeed (Tehran, Iran) on 13 March 2008 in Architecture and Portfolio.

Persepolis / Shiraz / Iran
Nikon Coolpix E3700 / ISO 50 / 1/508 Sec / F/6.5 / 11mm
31.03.2006

Archaeological evidence shows that the earliest remains of Persepolis date from around 515 BC. (More Than 2520 Years)
André Godard, the French archaeologist who excavated Persepolis in the early 1930s, believed that it was Cyrus the Great who chose the site of Persepolis, but that it was Darius the Great who built the terrace and the great palaces.
Darius ordered the construction of the Apadana Palace and the Debating Hall (the Tripylon or three-gated hall), the main imperial Treasury and its surroundings, which were completed at the time of the reign of his son, King Xerxes I. Further construction of the buildings at the terrace continued until the downfall of the Achaemenid dynasty.
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NIKON E3700
1/508 second
F/6.5
ISO 50
73 mm

persepolis