Bas-relief of a lion attacking a bull at the ancient Achaemenid Persian capital of Persepolis (modern-day Takht-e Jamshid, north of Shiraz)

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Bas-reliefs at Persepolis, built by Darius the Great ca. 518 BCE as capital of his Achaemind Empire in south-western Persia, modern-day Iran (1974)

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Photo credit: © Philip Game / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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Keywords: achaemenid, ancient, archaeological, archaeology, bas, bull, capital, darius, empire, fars, iran, iranian, lion, persepolis, persia, persian, relief, ruins, shiraz, takht--jamshid