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Ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire

Achaemenid period (ca. 550 - 330 BCE). I'd heard about and no doubt seen cuneiform tablets, but it wasn't until I visited the museum at Persepolis that I realized the medium (a clay tablet) and the fo
Achaemenid period (ca. 550 - 330 BCE). I'd heard about and no doubt seen cuneiform tablets, but it wasn't until I visited the museum at Persepolis that I realized the medium (a clay tablet) and the… © A.Davey from Portland, Oregon, EE UU, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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