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Persepolis (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia's article on Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, documenting Alexander the Great's burning of the palace complex in 330 BCE after his forces looted its treasury, and the Zoroastrian tradition, preserved in the third or fourth century Book of Arda Viraf, that the fire destroyed all the Avesta and Zend, written upon prepared cow skins and with gold ink, held in the royal archive, an event Zoroastrians afterward blamed on Alexander.
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A community edited general reference, tier 3, used here as independent corroboration of the 330 BCE date, the burning of the palace treasury, and the Book of Arda Viraf's account of the Avesta's destruction in the fire, alongside Encyclopaedia Iranica's account above. NotesUsed for the 330 BCE dating and the Book of Arda Viraf's account of the Avesta and Zend burning in the royal archive.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis
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