Persepolis is an ancient city located in Iran, the meanings of Persepolis are City of Persians, also known as Parsagade or Pasargadae in Persian language. It was the capital of Achaemenid Kings. Parsa was constructed in 512 BCE under the rule of King Darius the Great who made it the capital or Persian Empire instead of Pasargadae the old capital and burial place of Cyrus the Great. Due to its remote location in mountains as well as travel to Parsa was impossible in rainy winter when paths become mud, the city could only be used in summer and warmer season. In this city many Royal buildings were constructed in this city and in modern Persian it is known as Takht E Jamshid (The Throne of Jamshid), Chehel Minar (The Forty Columns or Minarets). The most important building in all these buildings is Tomb of Cyrus or Burial Place of Cyrus (The Great). Persepolis is located in Sheraaz , Iran the world heritage site. The burial space has six broad steps towards sepulcher, the chamber has low and narrow entrance It is said that when Arabs (Muslims) conquered Iran, they went to tomb and planned to destroy it as violations of tenets of Islam, but caretakers of tomb made two meetings with Arabs and convinced the Arab commander that grave was not of Cyrus but the grave of Mother of Prophet Solomon a.s, so they avoided to destroy it but inscriptions were replaced with verses of Quran and today its widely known as the tomb of mother of Solomon. It is also said that the tomb is oldest isolated structure in the world.
Wednesday, 9 April 2014
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