🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Pasargadae
Achaemenid (559–530 BCE construction; occupied to Seleucid era) · Achaemenid Persian
Earliest Achaemenid capital built by Cyrus the Great (559–530 BCE) on victory site over Medes.
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Tagscyrus
2 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic to Iron (c.4000 BCE–600 BCE; peak Proto-Elamite 3200–2800, Middle Elamite 1500–1100) · Proto-Elamite → Old Elamite → Middle Elamite (Anshan) → Persian Anshan
Malyan (Tal-e Malyan) is ancient Anshan — the great Elamite highland capital (130 ha) with Proto-Elamite tablets (3200 BCE, second after Uruk), Banesh phase mon...
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Achaemenid (559–530 BCE construction; occupied to Seleucid era) · Achaemenid Persian
Earliest Achaemenid capital built by Cyrus the Great (559–530 BCE) on victory site over Medes.