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A traveler and writer was the first to conduct a minor dig at the site of 1815
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Curzon published Persia and the Persian Question with many of the observations of travellers
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Ernst Herzfeld at the capital city of Ancient Cyrus and the Oriental Insitute of the University of Chicago
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Herzefeld began the Persepolis excavation
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Herzfeld was succeeded in 1934 by Erin Schmidt who directed the excavations
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World war II began
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He started excavations again
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However, years prior to 1960 the "Protective Antiquities Law" was not properly enforced. The fruitful international collaboration between Persian, American, Austrian, Belgian, British, Canadian, Danish, French, German, Italian and Japanese
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Persepolis was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list
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In 1991 president of Iran of archaeological work came to virtual standstill
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In 2006 archaeologists working at Persepolis made a film called "Persepolis Recreated
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