Italian ambassador visits Iran’s Persepolis

The UNESCO-registered Persepolis has hosted Italian ambassador to Tehran Giuseppe Perrone who acclaimed sets of glazed bricks recently unearthed by a team of Iranian and Italian experts.

The ambassador along with several diplomats and embassy staff visited Tol-e Ajori, a new monumental gate of the early Achaemenian period in the Persepolis area, where he gave a standing ovation to the discoveries.

“Admiring the staggering glazed bricks bearing bull and dragon motives just excavated by an Italian and Iranian team at Tol-e Ajori site in Persepolis,” Perrone tweeted.

According to a previous media interview with Perrone, ‘Restorers without Borders’ has been a joint archeological mission of the University of Bologna, ISMEO and the University of Shiraz, which brought in Iran a very cutting-edge technology to restore some parts of the Persepolis.

The ambassador described the mission as a “breakthrough”.

Persepolis, which was the seat of the government of the Achaemenid Empire, is classified among the world’s greatest archaeological sites.

Greek and Roman historians described how Achaemenid buildings were covered in great amounts of gold. Persepolis alone is said to have contained 2,500 tonnes of it.  

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