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The Palace Archives
Essays, interpretations, and explorations of the Megillah, Persian heritage, and the civilization of Shushan.
The Night Everything Reversed
V'nahafoch Hu in the Megillah
The moment Haman's plot inverts — when the gallows he built become his own scaffold, when the edict against a people becomes their triumph. What the Megillah teaches about the architecture of reversal.
Shushan at Dawn
The palace in the Achaemenid era
Before it was a story, Shushan was a capital. Achaemenid columns, palace gardens, a civilization that stretched from India to Ethiopia. What the archaeology reveals about the world of the Megillah.
The 127 Provinces
Geography of the Persian Empire
From the Indus to the Nile, 127 provinces answered to one court. The geography of the Megillah is not metaphor — it is the map of the largest empire the ancient world had known.
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