INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
sanctions on the legal process.In September 2019, a batch of the clay tablets, which comprised 1,783 pieces, were returned home after 84
was left in the hands of the U.S
Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of Iran.Archaeologists affiliated with the University of Chicago discovered the tablets in the 1930s
while excavating in Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire
However, the institute has resumed work in collaboration with colleagues in Iran, and the return of the tablets is part of a broadening of
contacts between scholars in the two countries, said Gil Stein, director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.The tablets
reveal the scenes of the economic, social, and religious history of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC) and the larger Near Eastern region in
the fifth century BC.Darius I, by name Darius the Great, was king of Persia from 522 BC to 486 BC, one of the greatest rulers of the
Achaemenid dynasty, who was noted for his administrative genius and his great building projects
Darius attempted several times to conquer Greece; his fleet was destroyed by a storm in 492, and the Athenians defeated his army at Marathon
in 490.The Achaemenid [Persian] Empire was the largest and most durable empire of its time
The empire stretched from Ethiopia, through Egypt, to Greece, to Anatolia (modern Turkey), Central Asia, and India.AFM
