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This video shows the ruins of Persepolis in Shiraz, Iran, once the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire. Massive stone gateways and carved reliefs still stand after more than 2,500 years.
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In 1971, at the age of eleven, I was in Iran with my late father, Ted Hughes, who was writing a play called Orghast, directed by Peter Brook, for the Shiraz-Persepolis Festival of Arts, to coincide ...