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Ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire

The winged bull guarding the gate to the Hall of All Nations surely must have been intended to impress and intimidate supplicants to the Achaemenid court. I know it would have made me straighten my
The winged bull guarding the gate to the Hall of All Nations surely must have been intended to impress and intimidate supplicants to the Achaemenid court. I know it would have made me straighten… © A.Davey from Portland, Oregon, EE UU, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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