Posted on 09/21/2006 12:08:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A red floor which dates back to the reign of Darius the Great was recently unearthed in the treasury of Persepolis, the Persian service of CHN reported on Wednesday. Archaeologists working on Persepolis were not informed about the floor, which was discovered while gardeners worked on the green area over top of one section of the treasury... [C]urator of the Persepolis site-specific museum Mohammad-Taqi Ataii said... the discovery confirms the view of German archaeologist Erich Frederich Schmidt about the dimensions of the treasury at the time of Darius I. Schmidt excavated Persepolis in the mid 1930s. Archaeological studies show that the Achaemenid’s revenues increased during the reign of Xerxes I, son of Darius, so he expanded the treasury area, which was located on the eastern side of Persepolis and also allocated a part of the area for his harem.
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Hmmm. The archeologists were complaining about not being informed of the discovery of the floor, but they should have been able to read the writing on the wall.
Plus they must all have heard that song, popularized by Hendrix and Stevie Ray, but originally sung by Darius the Great -- "there's a red floor over yonder, that's where my babies stay..."
"Plus they must all have heard that song, popularized by Hendrix and Stevie Ray, but originally sung by Darius the Great -- "there's a red floor over yonder, that's where my babies stay..."
The archaeologists didn't get it because they were still listening to Jim Lowe's 1956 #1 hit "Green Door,"'What's that secret you're keeping?'
Oops. Post #5 was to SunkenCiv.
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This would have been a room in which Alexander the Great trod.
Besides, red floors are so 500 BC.
Very true. Now, if he'd happened to walk through right after they'd painted the floor... ;')
:') Today it resembles George Harrison's Crackerbox Palace.
LOL, Alexander's shoes would be hard ones to fill. Not even Pompey could measure up!
Pompey, metaphorically, that guy was a tick to a dog. Would be nice to have his memoirs of the other side of the civil war though. :')
I watch the DVD of Michael Wood's "Footsteps of Alexander" and am just astounded by one thing in particular -- after a long winter healing from wounds and receiving massive reinforcements from Greece (financed of course by the captured Persian treasury, apparently the largest hoard ever captured by a conquering entity), the new year's campaign consisted of five armies of 50,000 each, crushing everything in their path -- in Central Asia.
Maybe they were too busy trying to find what was 'behind the green door'?
An interesting book on Alexander's campaigns and tactics is the Partha Bose 2003 book "Alexander's Principles of Leadership", which puts a management spin on all of Alexander's decisions. I found the text quite inspirational.
There's a book on Alexander subtitled "The Invisible Enemy", regarding Alexander's downward spiral of alcoholism.
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