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...Darius' six chief concubines used to occupy the ancient Persian apartment where Archeologist Ernst Emil Herzfeld last week played chess. She may have played the same old game there. Professor Herzfeld, who dug up & restored the place, has made it headquarters for further excavation of other once magnificent buildings of Persepolis...
Most magnificent was the square (225 x 225 ft.) "Hall of 100 Columns." Artaxerxes completed this, Dr. Herzfeld discovered six months ago. Atop each fluted column was a pair of carved bulls athwart which lay a huge cedar ceiling beam. Windows and niches broke up the long walls; painted carvings enlivened them. Here came satraps, courtiers and tributaries for homage to the curled & perfumed King of Kings. Here probably lived Esther, Queen of Xerxes whom the Old Testament calls Ahasuerus. Here came all-conquering Alexander the Great who, at the urging of one of his women, it is told...
Credit for the extensive excavations of Persepolis goes to Director James Henry Breasted of Chicago's Oriental Institute. He found the money to finance learned Professor Herzfeld and detach him from the University of Berlin. Professor Herzfeld, 53, has dug into ancient Persia for 30 years. The Shah is a personal friend, recently visited him at Persepolis...
...Herzfeld repaid the Oriental Institute last week with the publication of two items which struck an ecstatic cry from Director Breasted: "The discovery at Persepolis is one of the greatest and most important in the history of archeological research...