European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Bob staff Wriler Sinam of history is Kimono Lam and impartial As it flows its relent less always there arc nations rising mid the Earth is cluttered with the relics of forgotten and ignored the ruins of per scrolls in the arid mountains in the South of Iran Are an example of these vestiges and they must be witnessed to appreciate the rightful Pride of contemporary persians in their Rich and glorious because Persepolis Van the Center of ancient Persia and because Persia was then the most powerful of the ruins hold a special interest to casual serious historian and Arch eolo Gist destroyed luring the invasion of the greeks 333330 by an avenging Alexander the the ruins stand As a testament to the greatness of persian taste and strength must have sensed them All As he approached the Citadel at Perse and in retribution for the persians burning of his soldiers ransacked the great palaces and Halls which per Ilan rulers had taken 200 years to cracked battered Walls and sagging stairs Are All that is left of the Stone shrines of constructed by Darius the great 521488 and his it is impossible to View per scrolls As just another splendid for in a very real sense it is on Emblem of civil Western civilization of today be the direct descendant of the knowledge and culture which was accumulated at some historians contend that it was Only after Alexander took away the riches of per scrolls and the libraries of Persia thousands of books were trans lated into then the originals were burned that greek the inspiration of contemporary european Cul broke into full it is reasonably certain that Persepolis owes nothing to greek for the acro Pride of greek was built so years Afler pers Polk Persia experienced its greatest period in history during the reigns of Cyrus the Darius and his during this the Empire was extended from the Indus to the med Terra and from the caucasus to the in Dian for two Persia May have been the strongest nation in the but the Power of the Empire began to Wane even before the greek Conquest in the centuries following the greek the strength of the notion was sapped by a series of foreign the remarkable administrative system established by the ancient Kings was lost in the aftermath of the greek modern Persia occupies Only a Frac Tion of the Empire of cyrtus and Square on third one third desert and one third arable Twenty one million so per cent of whom live in and sub to conduct their tour of Penis on a chronological capital of Persia from to my is the logical Stop after just m mlle by Auto through Bleak Hills from the ancient has been a Center of Scholastic Commerce and culture for Many centum 1thls venerable Community is known to All persians As the City of poets persian greatest Sadl 1181lmi and Hafiz 13241388 lived in Eaf hop by a rough halfday jog by in lies the ancient islamic the Arab invasion of 637 brought islam to the nation is dry of nearly feet above sea icel this fabled City of More than to Pant Iii january j965 some of the ruins in capital of ancient which wat Devail oled by the Feist Staci present today Boniti of modern hit i Bank building in the stars and stripes