This ancient city thrived under Untash Gal, who built the religious site of Chogha Zanbil nearby.
This ancient city thrived under Untash Gal, who built the religious site of Chogha Zanbil nearby. Herodotus relates that Histiaeus of Miletus was brought to this city and served as an advisor, but wanted to leave, and so encouraged an Ionian revolt. The site of the victory stele of Naram-Sin, it was utterly destroyed by Ashurbanipal in 646 B.C. Initially the capital of the Elamite kingdom, it was later a frequent refuge of the Parthians from their other capital at Ctesiphon, and also was a terminus of the Royal Road built by Darius I. FTP, name this great city of ancient Persia, with a shorter name than Persepolis.
This ancient city thrived under Untash Gal, who built the religious site of Chogha Zanbil nearby.
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