Herodotus was a drunken nationalist with a deep hatred of Persia and the Persian race, like alexander: he burned almost all the libraries, burned all the fire halls so that the true identity of the ritual would be forgotten forever. He also took this golden elami block with him to the grave, it was found as a burial object in his tomb. The hatred is still a ritual to this day, and Iranian archeology suffers the same fate as in Alexander's time. everything is stolen and kept secret