Gate of All Nations belongs to the years before the Common Era — dated here to c. 486 BCE at Persepolis. The date is a scholarly centre of gravity, not a foundation-stone timestamp.
Xerxes’ gateway funneled every embassy between colossal lamassu-like bulls before they saw the Apadana.
How it was made
Trilingual inscriptions name Xerxes as the builder. The architecture is a sentence: all nations enter here.
Why it still counts as a wonder
It never needed a Greek list to be a wonder: the labour, the alignment, or the survival is enough.
It is the Persian Ishtar Gate — less colour, more geopolitics in stone.
On dating
BCE in this series means years before the traditional birth of Christ, counted backward. A monument listed as c. 486 BCE may have been founded earlier, rebuilt later, or famous only in one phase. Where ancient writers disagree — as they do for Babylon’s gardens — we say so.
This is story 35 of 100 in The Trend Ledger’s illustrated desk on world wonders raised before the Common Era.