Persepolis
/pɜːˈsepəlɪs/- a city in ancient Persia, situated to the north-east of Shiraz. It was founded in the late 6th century BC by Darius I as the ceremonial capital of Persia under the Achaemenid dynasty. The city's impressive ruins include functional and ceremonial buildings and cuneiform inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian.波斯波利斯（古波斯一城市, 位于设拉子的东北方, 由阿契美尼德王朝的大流士一世在公元前6世纪晚期所建, 作为波斯的礼仪都城, 其给人深刻印象的废墟包括实用和礼仪用的建筑以及古波斯语、埃兰语和阿卡德语的楔形文字碑文）。