Darius’ Old Persian Inscription - Behistun (Column II - 1st Part)

Darius the Great, was the third Persian King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 522 BCE until his death in 486 BCE. He ruled the empire at its peak, when it included much of West Asia, parts of the Caucasus, parts of the Balkans (Thrace-Macedonia, and Paeonia), most of the Black Sea coastal regions, Central Asia, as far as the Indus Valley in the far east and portions of north and northeast Africa including Egypt (Mudrâya), eastern Libya, and coastal Sudan. Sources: • Sen, Sukumar 1941 Old Persian Inscriptions of the Achaemenian Emperors Calcutta University • Skjærvø, P. Oktor 2016 Introduction to Old Persian ~iranian/ • Klein, Jared, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz 2018 Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics [Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science - Band 41.1, 41.2, 41.3] Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton Pictures: ,