Persepolis in modern technology

So much has been written about Persepolis either during the heydays of the Achaemenid Empire or after Alexander’s arrival at the palace when it burnt – intently or not – down to ashes.

I can only speak for myself, but I often find it difficult to imagine what the Palace of Persepolis must have looked like with its many rooms and separate affectations. Thanks to our computer era, there are finally tools to help my imagination and the most effective one that I found is this 360 degrees view, linked to a clear floor plan.

http://www.stockholm360.net/vtour_map.php?id=persepolis

One can play with it for hours and have Alexander and his generals climb the stairways, passing underneath porticos and gates, walking through the corridors and courtyards, entering the Hall of One-Hundred Columns, the Apadana Palace, the Palace of Darius, or the earlier Palace of Xerxes, all the way to the wealth of the Treasury.

I often wonder what impact such a place must have had on Alexander, for whom the luxuries of Macedonia and Athens were peanuts compared to this lavish splendor!