The earliest examples of visual representations in Iranian history are traced back to the bas-reliefs of <answer>Persepolis</answer>, c. 500 BC. <answer>Persepolis</answer> was the ritual center of the ancient kingdom of Achaemenids, and the figures at <answer>Persepolis</answer> remain bound by the rules of grammar and syntax of visual language. The Iranian visual arts reached a pinnacle by the Sassanid Era. A bas-relief from this period in Taq Bostan depicts a complex hunting scene. Similar works from the period have been found to articulate movements and actions in a highly sophisticated manner. It is even possible to see a progenitor of the cinema close-up in one of these works of art, which shows a wounded wild pig escaping from the hunting ground.
What city was the ritual center of the Archaemenids?
Persepolis