André Godard, the French archaeologist who excavated Persepolis in the early 1930s, believed that it was Cyrus the Great who chose the site of Persepolis, but that it was Darius I who built the terrace and the palaces.
André Godard, o arqueólogo francés que excavou Persépole a principios dos anos trinta, creu que foi Ciro o Grande quen elixiu o sitio de Persépole, pero que foi Darío I quen construíu a terraza e os palacios.