A Persian city called Jundishâpur (or Gondishapur) rescued Greek philosophy, synthesized the world’s knowledge, transmitted it through the Islamic Golden Age, and quietly made the European Renaissance possible.
The ruins under the farmer’s plows
There is a village in southwestern Iran called Jandi Shapur. Fourteen kilometers southeast of the city of Dezful, where the Khuzestan plain meets the foot of the Zagros Mountains, farmers still work the land above a sprawling ghost. The ruins beneath their fields stretch more than three kilometers in length and nearly two in width — the low mounds of a city that was once the greatest center of learning on earth. Archaeologists have mapped it. Historians have studied it. And almost nobody in the West has heard of it. That absence is not an accident. It is a symptom.
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