peggyhr: 2500+ year old carved portrait of a Persian soldier
peggyhr: Ruins of The Private Palace of Xerxes (The Hadish - a Dwelling place)
peggyhr: Silent witnesses: The columns of the Apadana Palace, Takht-e Jamshid (Persepolis) in the Fars region of what is now southwestern Iran.
peggyhr: Bas-relief of Cilicians with two fat-tailed rams on the Apadana staircase
peggyhr: Darius' Palace or The Tachara (486 BCE)
peggyhr: Persepolis: 2500+ year old footwear fashion
peggyhr: Persepolis: Terrace Staircase in early morning sunshine
peggyhr: Persepolis: One of the bull-like colossi on The Gate of All Nations
peggyhr: 308 year old graffiti on the Gate of All Nations in Persepolis, Iran
peggyhr: ... the twelve-petaled water-lily motif on the ruins of Persepolis
peggyhr: Persepolis: Silhouetted Gate of All Nations
peggyhr: 2500 year old depiction of an umbrella in Persepolis, Iran