He stands there, examining a beautiful white column, with perfect curves around it and an exquisite capital that shows detailed architecture. He twists his head to the right just a bit to read the official description. He is in the Louvre museum and a bit surprised. He was expecting to read "Pre-Hellenistic Greek Column," but stunned, he realizes that it says "columns of Persepolis, circa 500 B.C.E." "That's surprising", he says to himself "I could have sworn that that one came from Greece." Yes, surprising. As a matter of fact, many things which are considered to have originated in Greece and are now known as "Western" culture, art, and architecture, actually originated in the Middle East, or more precisely, in ancient Persia. Most people don't know it, but Persia was the center of the world before and during the Greco-Persian Wars (492-449 BC) ("Greco-Persian Wars"). The whole w....

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