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Drawing of the Taq Kasra in Ctesiphon, from 1679 book Turris Babel by Athanasius Kircher

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English: Drawing of the Taq Kasra in Ctesiphon, from 1679 book Turris Babel by Athanasius Kircher (in the book, following Pietro Della Valle's description, the monument is called divan al chefra, said to mean "house (curia) of the Parthians"
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Source Downloaded from Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/turrisbabelsivea00kirc/page/n6/mode/2up; the scanned copy is part of the collection of Roger Wagner
Author Athanasius Kircher
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