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Ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire

Detail from the Apadana Palace, northern stairway - showing a Persians followed by a Mede soldiers in traditional costumes, Persepolis, Iran. 515 BC.
Detail from the Apadana Palace, northern stairway - showing a Persians followed by a Mede soldiers in traditional costumes, Persepolis, Iran. 515 BC. © Aneta Ribarska, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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