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Bas-relief of Achaemenid soldiers at Tachara
October 9, 2015 , IRAN , FARSThe Tachara, or the Tachar Château, also referred to as the Palace of Darius the Great, was the exclusive building of Darius I at Persepolis. It is one of the interior building of Persepolis, and is made of gray stone. Its construction was ordered by Darius I, the son of Cyrus the Great, but only a small portion of the it was finished under his rule. It was completed after the death of Darius I in 486, by his son and successor, Xerxes I, who called the house a Taçara, translated as "the winter palace" in Old Persian. It was then used by Artaxerxes I. Its ruins are immediately south of the Apadana. Persepolis, literally meaning "the Persian city," also known as the Throne of Jamshid (Taxt e Jamšid), was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550–330 BC). Persepolis is situated 60 km northeast of the city of Shiraz in Fars Province, Iran. The earliest remains of Persepolis date back to 515 BC. It exemplifies the Achaemenid style of architecture. UNESCO declared the ruins of Persepolis a World Heritage Site in 1979.
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