The fourth and greatest Achaemenid emperor (522–486 BC)

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Democede di Crotone e Udjahorresnet di Saïs : medici primari alla corte achemenide di Dario il Grande / Francesco Lopez.

Darius and Xerxes. Engraving after a design attributed to P. de Jode I.

Aramaic papyri of the fifth century B.C. / edited, with translation and notes, by A. Cowley.

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Darius I of Persia

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Aramaic papyri of the fifth century B.C. / edited, with translation and notes, by A. Cowley.