Darius the Great or Dārayavahuš in Old Persian was ruler of the Persian Empire (Achaemenid) at its hight in the 5th century B.C.His name is mentioned in varius Aramaic documents like the Petition to Bagoas-a letter from the El…
The Elephantine papyri is a body of texts from 5 B.C. mostly written in Imperial Aramaic from Elephantine-a Jewish fortress on an island in the Upper Nile near Aswan in Persian-ruled Egypt.The name Elephantine is what Greek ca…
At its height the Persian Empire was huge stretching from Macedonia and Thrace to the Indian Subcontinent. Occupation of Upper Mesopotamia. In the 6th century B.C.E. the Persian Empire devastated the lands of Mesopotamia incorpo…
