W ith the defeat of the Achaemenid armies at the Granicus (334 BCE), Issus (333 BCE), and Gaugamela (331 BCE) the road to the Persian heartland lay open. There was no Achaemenid army that could be ...

In 1979 the ruins were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. The site is marked by a large terrace with its east side abutting the Kuh-e Rahmat (“Mount of Mercy”). The other three sides are formed ...

Due to the extensive amount of debris covering the ruins and the complexity of the excavation ... utilization of natural topography and bears witness to the influence of Achaemenid and Parthian ...

However, Persepolis successfully drained a significant volume of water thanks to its underground channels, originally constructed during the Achaemenid era and known as the Achaemenid water channels, ...