Persepolis, also known as Takht-e Jamshid, whose magnificent ruins rest at the foot of Kuh-e Rahmat (Mountain of Mercy) is situated 60 kilometers northeast of the city of Shiraz in Fars province. The ...

Narratives say that Persepolis was burnt by Alexander the Great in 330 BC apparently as revenge against the Persians, because it seems the Persian King Xerxes had burnt the Greek City of Athens around ...

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Former environmental agency leaders under Republican and Democratic presidents condemned what they called the dismantling of ...

The last complete manuscripts may have burned when Alexander the Great conquered Persepolis in 330 B.C. Confucius’ Sixth Classic We still have the “Five Classics” traditionally ascribed to ...

In the year 330 BC, Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire following his victory over the Persian Emperor Darius III (r. 336-330 BC) at the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 ...