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Persepolis

Ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, built from around 518 BCE on a monumental terrace as the stage for New Year receptions of tribute from across the empire, until Alexander the Great's army captured and burned it in 330 BCE - whether as calculated revenge for the earlier Persian burning of Athens or a drunken accident is still debated.

Dated events and their evidence

• 518 BCE mainstream
  construction begun under Darius I source
• 330 BCE mainstream
  burned by Alexander the Great's army source

Where

29.9350° N, 52.8900° E

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119399919.eahaa00024
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis

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