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Middle East Eye takes a look at the history of the naming dispute. 'Persian Gulf' used for more than 2,500 years .

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Persepolis has giant sculptures and stone reliefs of ancient Persian kings, nobles and gods. But these have suffered from lichen, a combination of an algae and a fungus.