INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
recently discovered a petroglyph in the region bearing the name Allah, said Iranian archaeologist Abolhassan Atabaki.The rock carving is
estimated to date back to the early-Islamic era, he added.Ancient works and stone inscriptions discovered in the region over the past few
years have always captured the interest of archaeologists, historians, and people interested in ancient languages.In January, Atabaki
announced that a Sassanid-era petroglyph, written on the subject of wishing for a holy marriage for an Iranian lady, was discovered in the
region.An ancient rock drawing of a Sassanid-era horseman was also discovered in Marvdasht plain in the province, he mentioned.Moreover, in
February, a petroglyph containing verses from a poem by the Persian poet Sheikh Muslih od-Din Sadi Shirazi was discovered in the
Darius I the Great moved the capital to nearby Persepolis in the late 6th or early 5th century BC
Alexander the Great defeated the Achaemenian army at Arbela in 331 and burned Persepolis apparently as revenge against the Persians because
it seems the Persian King Xerxes had burnt the Greek City of Athens around 150 years earlier.Persis became part of the Seleucid kingdom in
