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The Apadana, which was used as a gathering hall for receptions, was the largest building in Persepolis. A relief on the stairway includes depictions of delegates to the Achaemenid royal court (left), a multilingual inscription (center) saying that King Xerxes completed the building, and an image of a lion (right) attacking a bull.(Borna_Mir/ Adobe Stock)
As visitors to Persepolis, capital of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, entered the city, they would approach a stone terrace on which a palati
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