Around 500 B.C. this Persian king built Persepolis; parts of the city's audience hall & palace are still standing
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PERSIAN ART: Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes c. 500 B.C. ...  A magnificent city founded by Darius I in 518 BC, Persepolis took over a century to build. ... intricate carvings of slaves, kings, officials and representatives from across the Persian empire. ... The earliest remains of Persepolis date from around 515 BCE. ... Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes. Stone. Persepolis, Iran. Persian.
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Persepolis - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Sep 2, 2009 ... Persepolis is the Greek name (from perses polis for 'Persian City') for the ancient ... began at the site in 518 BCE under the rule of King Darius the Great ( who ... The great palace built by Xerxes I consisted of a grand hall that was ... place of the forty columns'(for the still-remaining columns standing among...
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Persepolis - Wikipedia  Persepolis also known as Takht-e-Jamshid was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550330 BC). Persepolis is situated 60 km northeast of the city of Shiraz in Fars Province, Iran. The earliest remains of Persepolis date back to 515 BC. .... In 316 BC, Persepolis was still the capital of Persia as a province of the great...
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Persepolis: The Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes | Persian ...  Capital of a column from the audience hall of the palace of Darius I, Susa ... The great audience hall of the Persian kings Darius and Xerxes presents a visual ... 515 B.C.E. Persepolis, a Greek toponym meaning city of the Persians, was ... 500-490 B.C.E. The two sets of stairway reliefs mirror and complement each other.
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Iran Travel Information Forum  View topic - Takht-e Jamshid ...  Founded by Darius I in 518 B.C., Persepolis was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire. It was built on an immense half-artificial, half-natural terrace, where the king of ... What remains today, dominating the city, is the immense stone ... consisting mainly of the Audience Hall of the Apadana, the Throne Hall...
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Persepolis - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Sep 2, 2009 ... Persepolis is the Greek name (from perses polis for 'Persian City') for the ... construction began at the site in 518 BCE under the rule of King Darius the Great ( who ... Darius made Parsa the new capital of the Persian Empire, instead of ...... Darius I moves the capital of Persia from Pasargadae to Persepolis.
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Colosseum - Ancient History - HISTORY.com  Built in 70 A.D., Rome's Coloseum has been the site of celebrations, sporting events ... was commissioned around A.D. 70-72 by Emperor Vespasian of the Flavian ... the Colosseumofficially known as the Flavian Amphitheaterwith 100 days of ... the Colosseum was a freestanding structure made of stone and concrete.
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Nineveh - Wikipedia  It was Sennacherib who made Nineveh a truly magnificent city (c. 700 BC). He laid out new streets and squares and built within it the famous "palace without a...
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Achaemenid Empire, Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great, Xerxes the ...  The Achaemenid Empire would eventually control Egypt as well. ... Persians settled in a land which they named Parsua, bounded on the west by the Tigris River .... Cyrus the Great's son Cambyses II would become the king of Persia, and his daughter ... He ended his conquest of the area in 542 BC and returned to Persia.
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Pericles - Wikipedia  Pericles was a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Agespecifically the time between the Persian and...
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October 24, 2008  ... in 490 B.C., but it was defeated at Marathon Persian Empire;Persian A prolific fighter & builder, he ruled Egypt from about 1290 to 1223 B.C. Ramses the Great...
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Achaemenid Empire, Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great, Xerxes the ...  550-330 BCE), sometimes known as First Persian Empire, was an empire in Southwest ... and for instituting infrastructures such as a postal system, road systems, and the .... Herodotus claims that when Cyrus the Great was ten years old, it was .... using the technique of building earthworks to breach the walls of besieged...
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British Museum - Parthenon Sculptures  The Parthenon sculptures: an introduction to the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum, ... The Parthenon in Athens has a long and complex history. Built nearly 2,500 years ago as a temple dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena, ... The sculptures in London, sometimes known as the 'Elgin Marbles', have been on...
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View from Today--Ancient Times - World Book Online  In time, the Roman Empire grew, and took over other civilizations. .... After Alexander's death in 323 B.C., Alexandria became the capital of Egypt under its new ruler, .... He devoted most of his reign to a spectacular building program that included the ..... 2,500 feet long and 750 feet wide: 765 meters long and 230 feet wide.
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Persian Empire - World History in Context - Gale  The Persian empire flourished in the ancient Near East from 550 to 330 B.C. ... began with Darius I, also known as Darius the Great, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty. ... In the 500s B.C., Persia was ruled by a king named Cambyses I, who was .... a great Iranian religious prophet* and teacher named Zoroaster emerged in...
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Persepolis - Wikipedia  Persepolis also known as Takht-e-Jamshid was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid .... Many historians argue that while Alexander's army celebrated with a ... Indeed, in his Chronology of the Ancient Nations, the native Iranian writer Biruni ... In 316 BC, Persepolis was still the capital of Persia as a province of the great...
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Battle of Marathon - Wikipedia  The Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC, during the first Persian invasion of Greece. It was ... Herodotus, who has been called the "Father of History", was born in 484 BC in ... In 500 BC the Persian Empire was still relatively young and highly ..... -The Persian fleet that invaded Greece 10 years later (480 BC) had 1207...
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Greece - Famous & Ancient Historic Buildings, Historical Sites, Places  The Acropolis is not a single building but a number of temples build on a hill ... high city) in Greece we tend to associate the name with the one in Athens. The buildings that survive today are the Parthenon built between, 447  438 BC ... The first recorded Olympic Games took place in 776 BC although they may have started...
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January 15, 1961 - Beautiful Wanderer | Chicago Tribune Archive  When her successor, the third bride of the 41 year old shah, presented him with a son ... when the news of the royal birth in Tehran reached her latest outpost of exile. ... chance that the shah ever will desert the Peacock throne to join Soraya. ... Persian empire and founded Iran's monarchy 2,500 years ago; Reza after his...
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Iraq Significant Site 010 - Baghdad - Abbasid Palace - CEMML  Located on the Tigris River, the city dates back to pre-Islamic times. ... History of Baghdad: The city of Baghdad is often said to have been founded on the west bank of the Tigris on 30 July 762 by the Abbasid dynasty, led by caliph al-Mansur; ... outshone Ctesiphon, the capital of the Persian Empire [located 30 kilometers (20...
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Full text of ""Persian Fire"" - Internet Archive  In 480 BC, some forty years before Herodotus began his history, Xerxes, the ..... gardens and canals, the kings of Assyria had always seen it as their duty to .... 7 Not that the new king of Media, Astyages, had any intention of hanging up his saddle. .... Cyrus had no intention of destroying the most strategically sited city in the...