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It is believed that the fire which destroyed Persepolis started from Hadish Palace, which was the living quarters of Xerxes I, and spread to the rest of the city. [17] It is not clear if the fire was an accident or a deliberate act of revenge for the burning of the Acropolis of Athens during the second Persian invasion of Greece .
The destruction of Athens, took place between 480 and 479 BCE, when Athens was captured and subsequently destroyed by the Achaemenid Empire.A prominent Greek city-state, it was attacked by the Persians in a two-phase offensive, amidst which the Persian king Xerxes the Great had issued an order calling for it to be torched.
330 BC – Persepolis destroyed by fire after its capture by Alexander the Great. 146 BC – Carthage was systematically burned down over 17 days by the Romans at the end of the Third Punic War; 64 – Great Fire of Rome, Italy; 79 – Lyon burned to ashes. [1] 406 – A great fire burns down much of Constantinople.
Thaïs leading the destruction of the palace of Persepolis, as imagined in Thaïs by Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse, 1890.. Thaïs (/ ˈ θ aɪ s /; Greek: Θαΐς; fl. 4th century BCE) was a Greek hetaira who accompanied Alexander the Great on his military campaigns.
After the Khoy Massacre of 1918, the surviving Assyrians fled the region, many seeking refuge in Russia or Iraq. The attacks of Simko Shikak led to further massacres against Assyrians in Persia, which almost completely destroyed their communities there. Simko Shikak revolt (1918–1922) 1918 to 1922 North-Western Iran 5,000 Cinema Rex fire
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Persepolis (1 C, 17 P) S. Shechem (18 P) T. Tel ...
The Nazis destroyed much of Warsaw during World War II: an estimated 16 million books, and about 85% of the city's buildings. [g] The libraries of the University of Warsaw and of the Warsaw Institute of Technology were razed. 14 other libraries were completely burned to the ground.
Professor Stolper's earlier interests were centered on Babylonian legal texts, but his most current work involves the Persepolis Fortification Project.He and a team of student employees are currently [when?] racing to document the Persepolis Fortification Archive, a collection of Achaemenid administrative records from Persepolis written mostly in Elamite (though a Greek and, surprisingly, an ...