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| Persian guard with barbed head is killing a lion in Persepolis ruins relief, Persepolis, Iran. Persepolis is situated 70 km northeast of Shiraz and was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC). The earliest remains of Persepolis date from 515 BC | 
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