Word: susa
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...worst here. Thus in Pliny there is an absurd account of the gold-hunting of the Bactrians. The works of Herodotus, Diodorus, and Strabo contain numerous legends regarding the production of the precious metals. But the conquest of Persia by Alexander, laying open the vast treasure houses of Susa, Persepolis and Ecbatana afforded something like a measure of the metallic wealth which had been amassed through many centuries. In that early time this wealth amounted to hundreds of millions of our money. This is the all important fact in the history of the precious metals down to the Macedonian conquest...
...left of the door, the objects are arranged in chronological order, except where their size or the date of their arrival has prevented. Among the finest specimens in the collection are the colored casts of monuments from the Babylonian ruin of Tello and from the ruins of the Persian Susa. There are also casts of Hittite bas-reliefs and inscriptions. In the high cases in the room are casts of Assyrian monuments of the ninth and seventh century B. C. A case to the left of the door contains the original Babylonian clay tablets, while in one to the right...