The Palace of Darius At Susa : The Great Royal Residence of Achaemenid Persia

The palace complex of the Persian King Darius I, the Great, King of Kings, Pharaoh of Egypt (522-486 bc), provides unique evidence of the sophistication of Achaemenid architecture and construction. This palace, built 2500 years ago in western Iran, lay at the centre of the Persian Empire that stretched from the Nile and the Aegean to the Indus Valley.