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Relief of king Darius I (550–486 BCE). Year 486 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Viscellinus and Rutilus (or, less frequently, year 268 Ab urbe condita).
H. H. Rowley's 1935 study of the question (Darius the Mede and the Four World Empires in the Book of Daniel, 1935) has shown that Darius the Mede cannot be identified with any king, [21] and he is generally seen today as a literary fiction combining the historical Persian king Darius I and the words of Jeremiah 51:11 that God "stirred up" the ...
Darius the great king, king of kings, king of countries, son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenid. King Darius says: This is the kingdom which I hold, from the Sacae who are beyond Sogdia to Kush , and from Sind ( Old Persian : ππ‘ππ’πΊ , "Hidauv", locative of " Hiduš ", i.e. " Indus valley ") to Lydia ( Old Persian : "Spardâ") – [this ...
Cyaxares II (Ancient Greek: ΚυαξΞ¬ρης) was a king of the Medes whose reign is described by the Greek historian Xenophon. Some theories have equated this figure with the "Darius the Mede" named in the Book of Daniel. He is not mentioned in the histories of Herodotus or Ctesias, and many scholars doubt that he actually existed. The ...
Darius (Old Persian: ππ πΌπΉπΊπ’π DΔrayavaΚ°uš; Ancient Greek: ΔαρεαΏος Dareios; c. 485 – 465 BCE), was crown prince of the Persian Empire. He was the eldest son of the Persian king Xerxes I and his wife Amestris. His younger brothers were Hystaspes and Artaxerxes, and his younger sisters were Rhodogune and Amytis.
The gold and silver tablets retrieved from the stone boxes contained a trilingual inscription by Darius in Old Persian, Elamite and Akkadian, which describes his Empire in broad geographical terms, and is known as the DPh inscription: [1] Darius the great king, king of kings, king of countries, son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenid.
King Darius says: This is the kingdom which I hold, from the Sacae who are beyond Sogdia to Kush, and from Sind (Old Persian: ππ‘ππ’πΊ, "Hidauv", locative of "Hiduš", i.e. "Indus valley") to Lydia (Old Persian: "Spardâ") - [this is] what Ahuramazda, the greatest of gods, bestowed upon me. May Ahuramazda protect me and my royal house!
Egyptian statue of Darius I, discovered in the Palace in Susa. [10] Modern impression of an Achaemenid cylinder seal from Iran, with king holding two lion griffins at bay and Egyptian hieroglyphs reading "Thoth is a protection over me". Circa 6th–5th century BC. [11] [12] Darius took a greater interest in Egyptian internal affairs than Cambyses.