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Persepolis
Persepolis's own clay tablets record rations paid out to workers and official travellers.
Persepolis was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (c. 550–330 BC).
Plan or drunken accident?
Photo: Laurens R. Krol, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons