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Persepolis

In Our Time: History

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The Wealth of the Persian Empire

The treasury excavated at persepolis is the only treasury that we have surviving from the accumulated period. And what we regard as treasure should perhaps be broadened out. There are stone carved vessels. There are antiquities from earlier kingdoms brought through into persepolus. So you might have almost a sort of museum like atmosphere of wealth and and sort of special resources that the king is regarded as having, as well as new floats, new floes of money.

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