Persepolis

On our way to Persepolis, one of the greatest cities ever constructed, the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenian Empire (520BC). Darius the Great started construction of this massive palace complex. In 331 BC, Alexander the Great burnt Persepolis to the ground.

Quote from Dorothy: “I’m not real big on history…. Cyrus 1, Cyrus 2, Cyrus 3.and then Alexander burned the dump down”….

We stopped at Nagsh-E Rostam, containing the carved tombs of 4 Achaemenian tombs (Darius the Great, Xerxes, Artaxerxes and Darius II) plus 8 reliefs from the Sassanian dynasty cut into the stone.

By the time we reached the “Tomb of Cyrus” at Pasargadae, my costume was almost doing a “Marilyn Monroe”.

We tried to cash money at the hotel. They told us to go to the black market.
Dinner at the hotel…and more ‘little date things”…
Dorothy entertained us with tales of taking her Egyptian friends to a Sunday gospel tour of Harlem and then to the Harlem hospital emergency room, “Look, there’s a guy with a knife in his chest.”