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

The coin of Ardashir I founder of sasanian dynasty minted in ctesiphon
The coin of Ardashir I founder of sasanian dynasty minted in ctesiphon © Arashbest, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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