The ancient metropolis of Ctesiphon , on the banks of Tigris , is located virtually 35 km southeast of modern Baghdad. Established inwards the belatedly 120s BC , it was 1 of the slap-up cities of belatedly ancient Mesopotamia too the largest metropolis inwards the footing from 570 AD , until its autumn inwards 637 AD , during the Muslim conquest. The exclusively surviving construction of Ctesiphon today is the royal vaulted hall of Taq Kasra , which served every bit the palace of the Sasanian manful mortal monarch Khosrow I , inwards the belatedly sixth century. The archway is 1 of the largest single-span vault of unreinforced brickwork inwards the world.
Ctesiphon was founded past times Mithradates I , the manful mortal monarch of the Parthian Empire , every bit a house of royal residence , afterwards he annexed Babylonia past times defeating the Greeks. Under the Parthian dominion , Ctesiphon became the political too commercial midpoint of the part , too past times 58 BC , it had travel the Empire’s capital. Gradually , the metropolis was merged amongst the onetime Hellenistic majuscule of Seleucia too other nearby settlements to degree a cosmopolitan metropolis.
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Backside persuasion of Taq Kasra from "Iraq , Photographic Studies past times Oliver F Butler" , published inwards 1922. Photo credit: Terterian/Flickr
Remains of the White Palace at Ctesiphon , Republic of Iraq , amongst the famous Arch of Ctesiphon , taken inwards 1864 , earlier the collapse of the right-hand façade. Photo credit: Wikimedia
A figurer generated icon depicting how the Imperial Palace mightiness produce got looked , taken from the video game “Total War: ATTILA”. Photo credit: steamcommunity.com
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