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Persepolis

In Our Time: History

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The Museum of Persephalis Is a Remarkable Place

The first excavator of the site, actually rebuilt a palace to live in. He got er a large amount of money to start excavating the site. A domestic house on the terrace which was the dig house and is continually in use. And there is still a library there, a study library. There is a garden that was developd by the second excavators a wife in the night in the mid 19 thirties. So it's a place, it's a twentieth century place as well as a ruin.

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