Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Discovery of the Persepolis Fortification Archive

The text of the telegram from Ernst Herzfeld to James Henry Breasted announcing the discovery of the Persepolis Fortification Archive, received 4 March 1933:

“Hundreds Probably thousands business Tablets Elamite Discovered On Terrace Herzfeld”

Facsimile to follow