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The Silk Road capital whose colossal arch still rises from the Mesopotamian plain

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Coin of the Sasanian king Bahram I.
Coin of the Sasanian king Bahram I. © Classical Numismatic Group; [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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