2022-05-12 Global, Colonial, Local: Deconstructing Perspectives of Persepolis... (Kiersten Neumann)

I wish you would have discussed the scale of destruction done to all non stone structures, including palaces conjoining the hills on the platform in Persepolis. You can see in those old photos that the "Treasury" and other places had most of their extensive walls, recesses, some plasters and frescoes--even fallen ceilings, intact. The American team (Schmidt, I think) ordered them all destroyed and leveled to the ground, leaving only the outline of the foundations that we see today. Your own pictures show those walls and buildings when excavated and before their wholesale removal.