Posted on 12/01/2008 6:18:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The ancient town of Parsa has begun to emerge from the shadows of Persepolis. An Iranian-Italian joint archaeological team has brought to light the first remains of the town of Parsa, which was the residential area of commoners just outside the palaces of Persepolis... Professor Callieri said the team, in collaboration with the Parsa-Pasargadae Research Foundation, is also studying the possibility of setting up a centralized data base compiling all the information on Persepolis and the surrounding area, which may also be put online on a web site.
Asked if the excavation provided further evidence of the fact that Persepolis was the only major monument of ancient times that was built by paid workers and not by slaves, Professor Callieri replied, "No new information, not yet. We understand that one of the cities which had exchanges with the Persepolis Terrace was very near Persepolis. Probably it is the city we are going to excavate." However, he noted that in previous excavations tablets have been found that record the payments to the workers, and added that these "objective" documents prove the workers were paid.
Asked if he found any similarities between the excavations in the Bolaghi Valley in 2005 and 2006 and the recent excavations on the outskirts of Persepolis, he... explained the differences by saying that the recent dig was at an inner suburb area close to Persepolis, whereas the site in the Bolaghi Valley that the team excavated was a rural village about 19 or 20 kilometers from Pasargadae.
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It’s possible. A month or two back I was reading all the accumulated titles on the various buried cities of Vesuvius. One of the great houses in Herculaneum was identified as having belonged to Julius Caesar’s father in law, and a brazier chipped out during the excavations was probably used by Caesar to warm his hands as he entered the house during one of his numerous visits.
Michael Wood’s “In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great” is a cool documentary (despite Wood’s anti-Israel BS and over-reliance on at least one unreliable source) and his aim (as the title suggests) was to literally follow Alexander’s route. The one place in the world where it’s actually possible to follow his route within inches is the temple in Siwa, Egypt, which survives, and the front entrance isn’t very wide. :’)
Very interesting, thanks.
It’s Kramer and thanks. Our library has more than six books. But Most of them are the equivalent of watching TV. Mostly crap. Didn’t mean to mislead. I really enjoy the GGG list. And just for the hell of it I have read Sitchin, Temple, Monroe, Castenada, and others. I’m just a lowly cabinetmaker living in a town of 3,000 people. If I had access to a nice big library , I would at least be a well read lowly cabinetmaker.
I did like The Masks of God series by Campbell.
Worldcat.org
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Initiative for Cuneiform Encoding
My pleasure.
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