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Acknowledgements 8 List of figures and plates 12 Bibliographic abbreviations 20 Foreword by David Stronach 22 Introduction 28 I. Persepolis: A survey of the site, its chronology and function 34 The name 34 The city 35 The constructions on the Terrace 41 The constructions outside the Terrace 51 Problems of chronology 66 The architectural history 74 Function and other related problems 76 II. Persepolis in Flames 82 Textual evidence 82 Archaeological evidence 85 The burning of Persepolis: Facts, interpretations, and speculations 88 Subsequent destructions of Persepolis 95 III. From Parsa to Sad-Sotun: The Afterlife of Persepolis Begins 98 Persepolis in the “dark age” of Fars 98 IV. Takht-e Jamshid: The Transformation of a Historical Site into a Mythical Symbol 108 V. In search of Persepolis: Western travellers’ explorations in Persia 120 Early journeys to the ruins of Chelmenar 120 The travellers of the Enlightenment 126 VI Persepolis and the puzzle of the cuneiform inscriptions 138 The query about the inscriptions at Chelmenar: Chardin and the Royal Society of England 138 Niebuhr’s copies in Europe 142 Grotefend and the decipherment of the Persepolitan scripts 145 VII. The Nineteenth

Author

Mousavi, Ali.

Language

IT

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction

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Updated

2026-03-14