Ecbatana

The ruins of the ancient city of Ecbatana, once a capital city of the Median and Achaeminid Empires, are located on the northeastern side of Mount Alvand, in the present-day city of Hamadan, about 1 km northeast of Imam Khomeini Square. Several ancient buildings were unearthed during the construction of a major roadway, the Khiyaban-i Ekbatan, in the 1950s. Eight miles southwest of Ecbatana, on Mount Alvand, are two cuneiform inscriptions known as the Ganj-Nameh ("Treasury Book"), one each of Darius I and Xerxes I. Sources:“Ecbatana.” Encyclopaedia Iranica. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ecbatana [Accessed July 9, 2019].Lockhart, Laurence. Persian Cities. London: Luzac, 1960.