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Society & Culture - Thursday, October 15, 2009 16:26 - 0 Comments
Images capture details of ancient tablets
Tablets uncovered at Persepolis in Iran are covered with writing in Aramaic.
U. CHICAGO (US)—High-quality scans of ancient documents discovered in Iran are shedding new light on Imperial Aramaic, the dialect used for international communication and record-keeping in many parts of the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian empires, including parts of the administration at the imperial court of Persepolis. Continue…
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