Persepolis: A Grandeur Echoing Through Time - The Enduring Legacy of the Achaemenid Persian Empire

Persepolis also served as a significant administrative center, housing archives of clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script. These tablets, primarily in Elamite, provide invaluable insights into the daily operations of the empire, detailing everything from labor wages and food rations to religious practices and military movements. They offer a rare glimpse into the bureaucratic machinery that underpinned the vast Achaemenid state.