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Ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire

Detail of one of the Louvre Museum melophores (immortal persian guard) from the famous glazed bricks friezes found in the apadana (Darius the Great's palace) in Susa (Shush) by french archeologist Mar
Detail of one of the Louvre Museum melophores (immortal persian guard) from the famous glazed bricks friezes found in the apadana (Darius the Great's palace) in Susa (Shush) by french archeologist… © dynamosquito from France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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