Pasargadae

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Pasargadae
Image source · Wikimedia CommonsCarole Raddato from Frankfurt, Germany · CC BY-SA 2.0Photograph cropped

Pasargadae was the first capital of the Achaemenid Empire and the creation of Cyrus the Great. The austere tomb of Cyrus, palace remains and royal four-part garden reveal the earliest phase of Achaemenid court architecture and an influential prototype for the Persian garden.