Oriental Institute Photographic Archives This collection includes all the spectacular aerial photographs of ancient sites in Iran taken by Ernst Herzfeld between 1935 and 1937. The next four maps were ...

Persepolis, Old Persian Parsa, or modern Takht-e Jamshid is an ancient capital of the kings of the Achaemenian dynasty of Iran (Persia), located about 50 km northeast of Shiraz in the Fars region of ...