THE PERSEPOLIS CUNEIFORM ARCHIVE, and the controversy over whether it should be confiscated by the US Government as compensation for terrorism sponsered by the Iranian Government, continues to be in the news. Chuck Jones has a detailed roundup at the Persepolis Fortification Archive Project blog.

Background here (keep following the links back from "controversy") and here. This story is tangential to PaleoJudaica's interests, but the in-principle issues around the controversy, along with the Aramaic connection, keep me interested.