In the early seventeenth century, two of the most interesting European travellers to the Near East, the Spanish García de Silva y Figueroa and the Italian Pietro della Valle visited the court of Shah Abbas the Great of Iran. Both had a very interest in the monuments and ruins, and the two visited the most interesting ruins of the country, as Persepolis. Pleasant narrators of their experience, the Spanish and the Italian were the first Europeans to highlight interesting aspects of ancient cultures, making significant contributions to the archeology and history of the ancient Near East.A comienzos del siglo XVII, dos de los más interesantes viajeros europeos a Oriente, el español García de Silva y Figueroa y el italiano Pietro della Val...