PERSEPOLIS THRONE HALL: Built in 6 or 60 years?
- From: "Lars Wilson" <siaxares@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:33:09 -0600
PERSEPOLIS: The Throne Hall, built in in 6 or 60 years?
I'll get right down to it. Why do I ask? Because Artaxerxes and Xerxes
were the same king, obviously. Artaxerxes was buried between Darius I and
Darius II, proving he followed Darius I, followed by Darius II.
Other investigations would confirm that Xenophon, who wrote about the
history of Cyrus, was paid off by the Persians to manipulate Greek history
as well, specifically the works of Thucydides, adding 30 years between the
Persian and Peloponnesian Wars and moving an eclipse back from 402 BCE to
431 BCE, adding 58 fake years to the Greek Period in the process. Oh yes,
it makes the Greek chronology incompetent, like "The Delian Problem" where
folklore has Plato being consulted during the PPW to solve a math problem,
only now the PPW begins 3 years before he's born. Be that as it may, it
still comes back to the archaeological discovery.
Darius I only ruled for six years and Xerxes and Artaxerxes being the same
king, theoretically would remove 51 years from the Persian Period. The
other critical detail is that after Darius I died, Xerxes adopted a new
name, Artaxerxes, and thus finished one of the buildings at Persepolis that
had been started by Darius and himself (as Xerxes) as Artaxerxes. That
building is the Throne Hall.
Now. Not taking sides on the historical revisionism or the current
timeline, it falls into the lap of archaeologists to determine whether or
not the Throne Hall could have been completed in just six years or sixty
years!! That's because the building began to be built with all the others
by Darius and Xerxes as co-rulers but wasn't completed until the 7th year of
Artaxerxes.
Now, if there was no conspiracy and the history is reliable as is, then it
would seem some evidence from this building would show it was under
construction for 60 years, or abandoned by Darius and Xerxes for some reason
and completed by Artaxerxes or something, or even being archetectually
challenging enough to actually require 60 years to complete. That's one
scenario.
The other scenario is that Darius and Xerxes started Persepolis and these
buildings, including the Throne-Hall in the 4th of Darius. Darius dies 2
years later at Marathon, forcing Xerxes to finish these buildings within a
few years, but adopting a new name as sole ruler, he finishes the Throne
Hall as Artaxerxes. Since the co-rulership began in the third year of
Darius (based upon eclipse corrections from the Greek Period), the city that
began in the 4th year of Darius also began in the 2nd year of Xerxes. If
Xerxes simply changed his name to Artaxerxes and actually finished the
building in his 7th year, then the building actually took 7 years to
complete, perhaps with a short interruption suggested if any deviation from
the original planning.
Still 6 and 60 is quite a difference!! An archaeologist might be able to
shed some light on this, perhaps evidence of the longer period or the
shorter period.
However, one wonders if there was an apparent completion of this building by
Artaxerxes having been started by Darius-Xerxes, why archaeologists haven't
come forward before, or more aggressively to tell us this building was
completed in just six years.
Or, are they purposely buring this observation. Other things at Persepolis,
thus suggest that Xerxes merely changed his name to Artaxerxes. Further,
there are extant texts that refer to an Artaxerxes "also known as Xerxes" in
some astrotexts published by none other than Sachs and Hunger, two prominent
scholars who got caught misrepresenting astronomical details in the VAT4956
which they nor the British Museum have bothered correcting in all this time.
So here's the archaeological challenge! A little perspective?
The Jews built a brand new double wall around the city of Jerusalem in just
16 years, probably with less staff that Xerxes and Darius had working at
Persepolis (though I can't confirm that, but Darius had a large and
professional staff doing the work). The temple was begun as well and after
a 2-year interruption was finished after 21 years.
The palace of Darius was completed likely in about 2 years, if that palace
is compared to another palace built for Xerxes in Babylon where texts show
it completed two years after it began. That would relate to Darius dying in
his 6th year, just 2 years after he began building his palace. So why did
the palace take just 2 years to complete and the rest of the buildings
finished by Xerxes and the Throne Hall by Artaxerxes take 60 years to
complete? 60! That's like three times as long as it took to build the
temple at Jerusalem?
On the other hand, if Xerxes simply changed his name to Artaxerxes, then it
explains why the Throne Hall was completed by "Artaxerxes", simply because
that was the customary new sole-rulership name, and that building would have
been completed in the next 4 years. Isn't that reasonable? Likewise,
when he was buried in the #2 tomb at Naqshi-Rustam, he was buried by his
popular name at the time, which was "Artaxerxes", even though, of course, he
was Xerxes. Otherwise, Xerxes would have been already buried in tomb #2,
right? Plus Darius II was buried in his own #3 tomb as well. The current
tomb of Xerxes is brand new compared to the others, unmarked, but suggestive
that it wasn't even created until after the death of Darius II, thus we look
for an aggressive revisionism sometime during the reign of Artaxerxes II who
followed Darius II.
Of course, if Xenophon was paid by the Persians to revise Greek history
after the history of the PPW was published by Thucydides, then obviously it
was Artaxerxes II and his administration who paid him off. And, in fact,
Xenophon's own histories are during the time of Artaxerxes II. With such
an aggressive push to cover their tracks so that the fake rule of Xerxes was
authenticated, it's logical the fake tomb was created at this time, long
after the original sculptors had disappeared as reflected by the "imitation"
sculptor work to match the original three tombs, but clearly not by the same
sculptor.
Interestingly, as well, the 58-year expansion by Xenophon threw a feather in
the cap of Artaxerxes II while he was at it, expanding his 17-year rule by a
wholloping 30 years, making his rule 47 years, making him the longest ruling
Persian king. Yet virtually nothing survives of what he did during his
rule. We only have Xenophon's history. Ktesias was the personal physician
for Artaxerxes II and he says he served him for 17 years.
So. Are archaeologists incompetent or dishonest? Negligent or ineffecient?
Gullible or biased?
You *tell* me.
Lars Wilson
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