García de Silva Figueroa
Spanish diplomat and traveller (1550-1624) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Don García de Silva Figueroa (December 29, 1550 – July 22, 1624) 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.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is de Silva and the second or maternal family name is Figueroa.