On this terrace, successive kings erected a series of architecturally stunning palatial buildings, among them the massive Apadana palace and the Throne Hall (“Hundred-Column Hall”). According to ...

A relief on the stairway includes depictions ... The terrace’s largest building, called the Apadana, or Audience Palace, featured 72 columns and a central court that hosted up to 10,000 people ...

The Apadana Palace is also being threatened by the construction of a preparatory school on its perimeter. In early December, Tariana sent letters to President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, asking him put a stop ...

The limestone bas-relief depicting the head of an Achaemenid soldier has been severed from the eastern staircase of the Apadana Palace, which was built by Xerxes I in Persepolis near the modern-day ...

In 1897, the French archaeologist Jacques de Morgan pilfered the remains of the Apadana Palace (c.520 BCE) and the Elamite Chogha Zanbil ziggurat (c.1250 BCE) in Susa to build a castle for himself.

By Nazanin Lankarani PARIS — In its refinement and meticulous detail, the miniature lion engraved in relief on the dial ... to decorate the Apadana Palace of Darius the Great, ruler of the ...