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Photography & historic works
Nine unique Commons images are used across the home, kings and cities pages.
02 · Home & Kings
Darius I at Behistun
Photograph by Rumlu. A local resized copy also appears on the site.
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04 · Kings
Darius III, Alexander Mosaic
1887 reproduction of the ancient mosaic; the Commons record does not identify the reproduction’s author.
05 · Home & Cities
Persepolis in spring
Ruins of the Palace of Artaxerxes I, photographed by Masoud Khalife. The website uses a resized local copy and the Commons-hosted image.
06 · Cities
Archers’ frieze from Susa
Photograph by Jebulon, Musée du Louvre; released by the photographer without copyright restrictions.
07 · Cities
Tomb of Cyrus
Photograph by Behrad18n, made available for unrestricted use by its copyright holder.
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09 · Cities
Bath-Gymnasium at Sardis
Photograph by Carole Raddato (Following Hadrian), originally published on Flickr.
Original visual design
Site-created artwork
These stylised illustrations and interface graphics are local project assets, not Wikimedia photographs. Their files contain no third-party creator or licence metadata, so no Wikipedia attribution is claimed.
Interface illustrations
royal-emblem.svg, empire-map-2.svg and column-capital.svg are original vector graphics supplied with this website project.
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