García de Silva Figueroa
Diplomat, Author
1550 – 1624
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Who was García de Silva Figueroa?
Don García de Silva Figueroa was a Spanish diplomat, and the first Western traveller to correctly identify the ruins of Takht-e Jamshid in Persia as the location of Persepolis, the ancient capital of the Achaemenid Empire and one of the great cities of antiquity.
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