Persepolis: The Legendary Persian City of Kings and the Memory of Fire

Persepolis: The Legendary Persian City of Kings and the Memory of Fire

Persepolis the city stood as the heart of the Achaemenid Empire, where divine order and imperial grandeur met in timeless harmony. Credit: Alborzagros / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY SA-3.0 High on the plains of ancient Persia, near what is now Shiraz, stands the memory of a city once called Parsa, known to the Greeks as Persepolis, the “City of the Persians.” Its foundations were laid in the late sixth century BC by Darius I, the visionary ruler of…