id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8841 Persepolis Administrative Archives - Wikipedia .html text/html 5391 505 59 Thousands of clay tablets, fragments and seal impressions in the Persepolis archives are a part of a single administrative system representing continuity of activity and flow of data over more than fifty consecutive years (509 to 457 BCE).[4] These records can throw light on the geography, economy, and administration, as well as the religion and social conditions of the Persepolis region, the heartland of the Persian' Great Kings from Darius I the Great to Artaxerxes I.[3] The archive arrived in Chicago in 1936 and has been under studies since 1937.[2] It was not until 1969 when Richard Hallock published his magisterial edition of 2087 Elamite tablets Persepolis Fortification Tablets leading to the renaissance of Achaemenid studies in the 1970s. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8841.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8841.txt