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	Persepolis: Gate of all the Nations - east - shedu / lamassu detail - UNESCO world heritage			Persepolis: Gate of all nations, aka Xerxes' gate - Easter side - UNESCO world heritage
	Persepolis: Gate of all the nations - western portico - bull			Persepolis: Lamassus, gate of all nations - Xerxes' gate
	Persepolis: Gate of all the Nations - east - lamassus, winged bulls with the head of a bearded man - they warded off evil - shedus			Persepolis: Gate of all the nations - columns of the central hall - double-bull in the capital
	Persepolis: Gate of all the nations - west - bulls			Persepolis: Stairs of All Nations and Terrace - main entrance
	Persepolis: Gate of all the nations - an Iranian woman contemplates the work of her Aryan ancestors			Persepolis: Homa bird - front view
	Persepolis: 19th century vandalism by Lottin de Laval, French artist and archeologist - the first European to visit Persepolis was a man from Portugal, Antonio de Gouveia, who noticed cuneiform inscriptions in 1602			Persepolis: Gate of all the Nations and double-headed Homa bird
	Persepolis: statue of double-headed Homa bird			Persepolis: statue of double headed Homa
	Persepolis: under the claws of a Homa bird			Persepolis: double-headed kneeling bull
	Persepolis: Homa - a griffin-like mythological creature in Persian art, some times identified with the mythical flying creature called Simurgh			Persepolis: bull's head - horns cut
	Persepolis: bull's head - front view			Persepolis: bull's head
	Persepolis: lamassus - unfinished gate started by king Artaxerx			Persepolis: portico with a bull
	Persepolis: Hall of 100 columns - column base			Persepolis: Hall of 100 columns - king Artaxerxes I Makrocheir on his throne, with fifty soldiers - portico
	Persepolis: Hall of 100 columns - gate - soldiers - with the round cap usually identified as Medians, with the straight cap as Persians			Persepolis: Hall of 100 columns - superstition - phallic weapon, polished by the visitors' hands
	Persepolis: Hall of 100 columns - aka Throne Hall - collapsed portico			Persepolis: Hall of 100 columns - portico
	Persepolis: Apadana - Eastern stairs - northern wall - relief showing tribute bearers - an Armenian man carries a present for the Darius the Great - a beautiful metal vessel with griffin (homa) handles			Persepolis: Apadana - soldiers of the Achaemenid empire
	Persepolis: Apadana - Eastern stairs - cuneiform signs - royal inscription			Persepolis: Apadana or Audience Hall - eastern stairway - Here Darius I received the tribute from all the nations in the Achaemenid Empire
	Persepolis: Apadana - column			Persepolis: Apadana - aggressive lion, once part of the capital of a column in the eastern portico
	Persepolis: Apadana			Persepolis: Apadana - Eastern stairs - southern wall - relief showing tribute bearers - Bactrians offer bowls and a Bactrian camel
	Persepolis / Parsa / Parseh, Takht-e Jamshid: arriving - Stairs of All Nations			Persepolis: Apadana - Eastern stairs - central wall - Mede and Persian soldiers - relief
	Persepolis: Apadana - Eastern stairs - southern wall - struggle between a bull and a lion - Angra Mainyu kills the primeval bull, whose seed is rescued by Mah - symbol for eternity - relief			Persepolis: palace of king Darius I the Great - side view
	Persepolis: palace of king Darius I the Great - southern façade - Tachara			Persepolis: Darius' palace - southern façade - porticos - UNESCO world heritage
	Persepolis: Palace of Xerxes - portico - Xerxers leaves the building, attended by people carrying a parasol - court scene			Persepolis: Darius' palace - gate on the southern facade
	Persepolis: Tripylon or Council Hall - Faravahar, representation of Ahuramazda, the supreme god of the Persians - Zoroastranism			Persepolis: Darius' palace - the original main entrance, with a large double staircase leading to the terrace, seen from the south
	Persepolis: Tomb of Artaxerxes III of Persia - Achaemenid dynasty			Persepolis: Tomb of Artaxerxes III - carved in the rock

Tehran

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Isfahan

Hormozgan

Yazd

Kerman (Bam...)

Qom

Kurdistan

Baluchistan

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East Azerbaijan

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Zanjan

Hamadan

Mazandaran

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