A small but strong display of ancient agitprop from Persia comes to the Getty Villa “Two Royal Sphinxes Beneath a Winged Disk,” Achaemenid, circa 500 BC, brick panel with colored glaze ...

The name reflects the modern Farsi pronunciation of Darius, the ancient king. After the 1979 Islamic revolution, hard-line clerics opposed any symbols from Iran’s pre-Islamic days.

The Aramaic inscription read “Year 24 of Darius,” dating it to 498 BCE. The short text thus records the name of the Persian king Darius the Great (Darius I), the father of Achashverosh.

They have become a treasure trove in revealing the inner administrative workings and social structure of ancient Persia during the reign of Darius I around the time of 500 BCE.

The inscription on a Persian pottery shard bearing the name of Darius the Great was declared fake. An expert revealed that she altered the artifact at an Israeli site.

The Lion of Darius piece is an homage to the Persian Empire of the Achaemenids (559 - 330 BC). Vacheron Constantin Text size ...

In 1010 CE, Persian poet Firdawsi wrote “Shahnamah,” the “Book of Kings,” which portrayed Alexander as Sikander, a Persian, and half-brother to Dara, or Darius.

"They were written, sealed and filed in a short span of time, between 509 and 493 B.C., in the middle of the reign of the Achaemenid Persian king Darius I," Stein said. "The oldest Greek tragedy of ...