==Description==The Apadana was the largest building on the Terrace at Persepolis and was excavated by the German archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld and his assistant Friedrich Krefter, and Erich Schmidt, between 1931 and 1939.
Kot v sodobni arhitekturni in arheološko gledano se beseda "apadana" uporablja tudi za hipostilne dvorane Urartu, kot so jih izkopali v Altintepe in Erebuni.