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Persepolis

In Our Time: History

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Is Persepolis a Target for Distruction?

Alexander has been battling through asia minor, the levante, egypt, across mesopotamia for over four years by this point. He comes up from having conquered babylon a after a large battle and then moved into susa. And then he struggles over the mountains, over the zagros mountains, into persepolis. The evidence there suggests that there must have been a fire of such ferocity that the columns themselves simply burst,. they simply shattered.

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