Pasargadae

Although lying largely in ruins, Pasargadae offers the glimpse into the remains of what once was the memorial city of Cyrus the Great - the emperor still regarded by many as history's most just and impartial ruler.

 

It is also the place where for the first time an eclectic miscellany of art and architecture, adopted from the countries incorporated into the vast Achaemenid Empire, was mastered and elaborately developed to generate the unique Old Persian Style, which was later perfected in Persepolis.

 

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