Ernst Herzfeld, an archaeologist that was doing work in Iran, found fragments of tablets said to be from around the year 500 B.C. They are said to survived due to the building that fell on top of them, blocking the tablets from the harsh elements of nature. Once he found these tablets, he sent them back to the United States for analysis. People have now been studying the tablets for over 70 years. They eventually landed in Chicago, and thinking they might be seized by the Iranian government, they began to make digital copies of the pieces of the tablets.
These tablets told a new point of view of the civilization of Persia. It gave us a new way to look at the way they lived, their language, and their history. These tablets
