The building of the city began under Kings Kyros the large one (approx. 550 v. Chr.) and Darius I. (approx. 520 v. Chr.), in order to serve as a solemn and mental capital of the Persian realm. Susa, the administrative capital, was 500 km north of Persepolis.
The growth of the city sat down among later kings such as Artaxerxes I. (approx. 450 v. Chr.), resounds the 100 columns and Artaxerxes II. (approx. 350 v. Chr.), those the unfinished Palace built. However the herrlichsten monuments were in Persepolis of Xerxes I. (approx. 470 v. Chr.): the gate universe nation, and the throne hall in order given.

Persepolis further under the later Achämenidenkönige prosper, to them burned and destroy from Alexander to the large one 330 v. Chr. It is not well-known, whether the burn of the city was coincidental, or an act of the revenge for the destruction of the temples in Athens in the year 480 v. Chr. of the Persern.

Modern excavations in Persepolis began in the early 19. Century. The gate OF universe nation is removed at the end from two monumental stairs. Between the stairs ramps are the symbols of the Zarathustra God Ahura Mazda, and Schnitzereien, those the different nations of the world, from Egyptians and Armenier, the Babylonier, Assyrer and Meder.
The gate leads the hundred-column hall to the throne hall or. Those resounds covers several doors with Schnitzereien shows the king in military fight decorated. It is assumed that the gate universe nation and the throne hall celebrations in new Year' s were used, as the delegated ones the annual tribute, that the Persian king. The city Persepolis was explained as the world cultural heritage of the UNESCO in the year 1979.