Detail View: SHIMMER: Takht-e Jamshid / Persepolis

Title: 
Takht-e Jamshid / Persepolis
Image Date: 
1971
Period: 
6th century bc
Start Date: 
518 bc
Location: 
Takht-e Jamshid, Fars
Country: 
IRAN
Display Creator: 
not known
Terms: 
Tourism impact
Image ID: 
10-1472
Description: 
Exterior view: Retaining walls and steps beneath The Apadana (Audience Hall - right) and the Gate of Nations (left). [Photographed in 1971] . Compare this image with another in SHIMMER photographed in 1960 - Image number: 10-0205). The site is beginning to experience tourists. A small tent just visible at the base of the steps constitutes the first tourist structure onsite. Darius the Great (550–486 BC) begun the construction of buildings at this site, which lasted throughout the Achmaeninid Empire, until 330 BC when they were looted and burnt by Alexander the Great. World Heritage Site.
Rights: 
© Sheffield Hallam University
Permissions: 
For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >." Please contact Mrs B.M. Edge via SHU Image Collection for permission to use this image for any other purpose.
Photographed by: 
John Edge
Creator: 
not known
Creator Role: 
Architect.
Subject Heading: 
Architecture -- 600-500 BC
Subject Heading: 
Architecture -- Iran -- Persepolis
Subject Heading: 
Palaces
Subject Heading: 
Heritage tourism -- Iran
Subject Heading: 
World Heritage areas
Subject Heading: 
Historic sites
Subject Heading: 
Tourists