Seven Treasures (Wonders) of Sassanid palace at Ctesiphon

[Cyrus]

On the left (northeast) bank of the Tigris River about 32 km southeast of modern Baghdad, there was the great metropolis of Ctesiphon, the capital of Parthian and Sassanid empires. The site is famous for the remains of the gigantic Palace of Sassanid king Khosrow, the Taq Kisra, which has still the largest single-span brick arch in the world.http://ecai.org/sasanianweb/graphics/Sa ... gAccording to Roman, Persian, Greek and Arabic sources, there were seven treasures or wonders in this Palace that one of them was the "Ox Treasure". It is said a farmer was ploughing his farm with an ox that he finds a large earthenware jar full of gold coins, he see the coins, all coins have the name of Alexander, he brings the coins to the king Khosrow, the king orders to dig up the whole farm and then one of the largest treasure of gold coins is discovered by finding more than one hundred of those Jars. The palace was plundered by Arabs in 7th century, nobody knows what happened for that huge number of coins of Alexander.

[Nicator]

Wow, that's quite a story! Thanks for the pic. later Nicator