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The Gateway of All Nations, from Persepolis, capitol of the Achaemenid Empire in the 1st millenium BC.
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| Guardian of the Gate, Persepolis
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| The remnants of the Apadana Palace (burned to the ground by Alexander the Great)
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Imagine each column topped by a capital like this one (from the National Museum in Tehran), which held up the massive wooden beams that formed the roof
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| Palace of Darius the Great, the Achaemenid king who began building Persepolis around 518 BC
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| Detail from the processional staircase at Darius' Palace
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My traveling companions from Shiraz to Tehran - Mehdi, Jonathan, and Mohammed
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| Our guide in Tehran
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| My guide from Tabriz to Kermanshah, Davoud
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