Прогрессивные персы

[bouzyges]

"Direct written evidence from the huge and long-lasting Achaemenid empire is incredibly meager. This is not a consequence of primitiveness but of progress. Just at this time the imperial administration definitely changed from clay tablets to leather scrolls, wooden tablets, and papyrus, with the use of Aramaic script and language. Sadly, the library of leather scrolls at Persepolis was destroyed when Alexander burned the royal palace there. But even without this act of vandalism, the new writing materials used in the empire had minimal chances of survival. As things stand, only Akkadian and Elamite cuneiform tablets and a few texts of cuneiform Persian remain in addition to the Greek and Hebrew accounts of the Achaemenid empire".

From Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture by Burkert