Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.XSd, inscription on column bases in the Great Gate of Susa
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Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.XSe, inscription on a slab of marble from Susa
[Babylonian Inscription on a Column Base made of marble.]
I am…
Yazılıkaya: ancient Hittite sanctuary near Hattusa, famous for its rock reliefs.Sanctuary
Because Yazılıkaya is close to the Hittite capital Hattusa, it may have been an important state sanctuary. It consists of two galleries of rock reliefs.
The "large gallery" (the northern one,…
Zamasp: king of Persia, ruling from 496 to 498/499, member of the Sasanian dynasty.
Zamasp
Main deeds:
Name: Zamasp
Beginning of reign: 496
Successor of:…
Zarathustra (Greek Zoroaster): legendary religious teacher from Bactria, founder of Zoroastrianism.
Modern portrait of Zarathustra, inspired by a dress on a…
Ziggurat: a multi-storied temple tower from ancient Mesopotamia.
Choga Zanbil
Ziggurats are, architecturally, the Mesopotamian equivalent of the Egyptian pyramids: large artificial…
Zopyrus: a Persian nobleman who may have played a role during the capture of Babylon by the Persian king Darius I the Great in December 522 BCE. The story is told by the Greek researcher Herodotus and can be read…