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.

29 December 1550

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Born in the same month (December 1550): Cesare Cremonini (philosopher) • Henry I, Duke of Guise • Man Singh I