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History of Takht-e Jamshid (Persepolis)

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lang="EN">Persepolis is derived from the Greek  Pérsēspólis("Persian city"). In contemporary Persian, the site is known as Takht-e Jamshid ("The Throne of Jamshid"), and Chehelminar ("The Forty Columns/Minarets").

Archaeological evidence shows that the earliest remains of Persepolis date from around 515 BC. André Godard, the French archaeologist who excavated Persepolis in the early 1930s, believed that it was Cyrus the Great (Kūrosh) who chose the site of Persepolis, but that it was Darius the Great (Daryush) who built the terrace and the great palaces.

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