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For the first time, a text has been found in Old Persian language that shows the written language in use for practical recording and not only for royal display. The text is inscribed on a damaged clay ...
EVERY man in Persia is a poet,” they say in Tabriz. Only they call it Iran today, a name which has in it none of the glint of turquoise and gold, of camels and riches, of mountains and salty inland ...