This meant that the Achaemenid king, Darius III, still had incredible resources that he could muster in defense of the empire. Moreover, the sheer size of the empire made it difficult for ...

Construction of its immense terrace was begun about 518 BC by Darius the Great, the Achaemenid Empire’s king. On this terrace, successive kings erected a series of architecturally stunning palatial ...

This was not the case in Persia where in the two centuries of the Achaemenid dynasty, only the founder, Cyrus, died in battle as a king. The Persian king, surrounded by the riches of the empire ...