Pasargad, Iran
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The first capital of the Achaemenid Empire, Pasargadae lies in ruins 40'40 kilometers from Persepolis, in present-day Fars province of Iran. Pasargadae was first archaeologically explored by the German archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld in 1905, and in one excavation season in 1928, together with his assistant Friedrich Krefter. Since 1946, the original documents, notebooks, photographs, fragments of wall paintings and pottery from the early excavations are preserved in the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC. After Herzfeld, Sir Aurel Stein completed a site plan for Pasargadae in 1934. In 1935, Erich F. Schmidt produced a series of aerial photographs of the entire complex. From 1949 to 1955, an Iranian team led by Ali Sami worked there. A British Institute of Persian Studies team led by David Stronach resumed excavation from 1961 to 1963. It was during the 1960s that a pot-hoard known as the Pasargadae Treasure was excavated near the foundations of 'Pavilion B' at the site. Dating to the 5th-4th centuries BC, the treasure consists of ornate Achaemenid jewellery made from gold and precious gems and is now housed in the National Museum of Iran and the British Museum. It has been suggested that the treasure was buried as a subsequent action once Alexander the Great approached with his army, then remained buried, hinting at violence. After a gap, work was resumed by the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization and the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée of the University of Lyon in 2000. The complex is one of the key cultural heritage sites for tourism in Iran.
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The pillars that observed Persia's best times
Marked for its one surviving column or pier, the Private Palace has a similar plan to that of the Audience Palace with a central columned hall sliced open by stone doorways in all four walls, although just the west and east (the right and left hand) sides were fronted by porticoes. The columns in the hall of the Private Palace, each supported by exceptionally finely-made, horizontally- fluted torus on black and white plinths, are smaller but more numerous than those of the Palace P.
Pasargadae is a really nice place. Not that big as Persepolis. But at least that important. It's a very huge area. With Cyrus Tomb and lot of different Buildings.. It's worth to go here.
it has been Cyrus's Palace. the palace that has been living in. it has been damaged but still worth visiting
Powerful and historical palec
Not much to see here the palace being destroyed long ago
amazing
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