Editing Persepolis (section)

===After the fall of the Achaemenid Empire===
[[File:Faravahar relief.jpg|thumb|[[Faravahar]] symbol in Persepolis|215x215px]]
In 316 BC, Persepolis was still the capital of Persia as a province of the great [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedonian Empire]] (see Diodorus Siculus xix, 21 seq., 46; probably after [[Hieronymus of Cardia]], who was living about 326). The city must have gradually declined in the course of time. The lower city at the foot of the imperial city might have survived for a longer time;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wondermondo.com/Countries/As/Iran/Fars/Persepolis.htm |title=Persepolis |publisher=Wondermondo |date=2012-02-13 |access-date=13 February 2012 |archive-date=28 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180528064826/http://www.wondermondo.com/Countries/As/Iran/Fars/Persepolis.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> but the ruins of the Achaemenids remained as a witness to its ancient glory.

The nearby [[Estakhr]] gained prominence as a separate city very shortly after the decline of Persepolis. It appears that much of Persepolis' rubble was used for the building of Istakhr.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title =Iṣṭak̲h̲r| first1 = M. | last1 = Streck | first2 = G.C. | last2= Miles | encyclopedia = The Encyclopedia of Islam, Second Edition |editor=P. Bearman |editor-link1=Peri Bearman|editor2=Th. Bianquis |editor-link2=Thierry Bianquis|editor3=C.E. Bosworth |editor-link3=Clifford Edmund Bosworth|editor4=E. van Donzel |editor-link4=Emeri Johannes van Donzel|editor5=W.P. Heinrichs | editor-link5=Wolfhart Heinrichs|publisher = Brill Online | year = 2012| url = https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/*-SIM_3672 }}</ref> At the time of the [[Muslim conquest of Persia|Muslim invasion of Persia]], Estakhr offered a desperate resistance. It was still a place of considerable importance in the first century of [[Islam]], although its greatness was speedily eclipsed by the new metropolis of [[Shiraz]]. In the 10th century, Estakhr dwindled to insignificance. During the following centuries, Estakhr gradually declined, until it ceased to exist as a city.

[[File:پانوراما روز تخت جمشید.jpg|center|thumb|800x800px|Persepolis Panorama (17 May 2024)]]