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Lying in the center of an ordinary in modern-day Iran is a forgotten historical city, Persepolis. Built two and a half thousand years back, it was known in its day as the richest city under the sun. Persepolis was the capital of Persia, the most significant empire the entire world had ever before seen, but after its destruction, it was generally forgotten for almost 2,000 years, and the lives and successes of those who built it were almost totally erased from history. Alexander the Great's soldiers razed the town to the bottom in a drunken riot to celebrate the conquest of the capital, and time and fine sand buried it for years and years. It was not until the excavations of the 1930s that lots of of the relics, reliefs, and clay tablets that offer a lot information about Persian life could be examined for the first time. Through archaeological remains, historical text messages, and work by a new generation of historians, a picture can today be built of the exceptional civilization and their capital city. Although the town had been destroyed, the legacy of the Persians survived, even as they mostly remain an enigma to the Western and are not almost as well known as the Greeks, Romans, or Egyptians. In a way, Persepolis and the Persian Empire are some of the most long lasting mysteries of historical civilization.

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