The newly identified quarry in the Kabir Kuh mountains near Abdanan matches the descriptions and is believed to be the fabled Abiradush. “The Apadana Palace in Susa is one of the most majestic royal ...

After the fall of the Achaemenid Empire and the reign of Alexander the Great, who married in Susa, the city became part of the Seleucid empire. It was now called Seleucia on the Eulaeus. A palace ...