In 1618, García de Silva Figueroa, King Philip III of Spain's ambassador to the court of Abbas I, the Safavid monarch, was the first Western traveler to correctly identify the ruins of Persepolis as the location of Persepolis.
En 1618, García de Silva Figueroa, o embaixador do rei Filipe III de España na corte de Abbas I, o monarca Safávida, foi o primeiro viaxeiro occidental en identificar correctamente as ruínas de Persépole como a localización correcta de Persépole.