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"The Achaemenids were enlightened DESPOTS..."
Xerxes, whom you may know as Leonidas's would-be conqueror-god in "300," was one.
They had many royal inspectors roaming the land, "the eyes and ears of the king." A surveillance society. How apropos.
imagine this artifact sleeping unknown for thousands of years, to surface NOW.
May 29, 2008, 5:21:00 PM
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