Tall e Takht massive little known ancient platform in Iran
The socalled knobs on stone blocks, large stone blocks weighing about 6 tons or even more. Official Information: Talle Takht, Marvdasht city, Fars Province, Iran. Talle Takht (in translation Throne Hill) is a stone platform a kilometre north east from Pasagardae. The great stone platform (once thought to be a fort) is made of finely dressed stones and was constructed by Cyrus the Great (559 529 BCE) but was abandoned quite abruptly after his death in 530 BCE. Like the acropolis in Athens, it may have been intended as a massive fortified plinth to hold palaces and temples. This was, in fact, realized later at Persepolis when Cyrus successors built their palaces on large plinths somewhat similar to Talli Takht. Built on a natural hill this 6000 square metre fort is constructed of mud brick with a fine stone base. The platform is 80 m long and 15 m high and is made up of some 20 layers of huge stone slabs having up to six tons weight. For help to vlad9vt channel on PayPal: vlkudin2gm
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