Category
page 1Achaemenid inscriptions
Behistun Inscription
inscription in Bisotun, Iranian national heritage site
Cyrus cylinder
ancient cylinder covered with Akkadian cuneiform script
Ganjnameh Tourist Resort Complex
Ganjnameh () is located 12 km southwest of Hamadan (ancient Ecbatana) in western Iran, at an altitude of meters across Mount Alvand. The site is home to two trilingual Achaemenid royal inscriptions. The inscription on the upper left was created on the order of Achaemenid King Darius the Great (522–486 BC) and the one on the right by his son King Xerxes the Great (486–465 BC).
Xerxes’s inscription
cuneiform inscription near Lake Van, present-day Turkey
Jar of Xerxes I
1857 archaeological discovery

Darius the Great's Suez Inscriptions
Achaemenid inscriptions in Egypt
DNa inscription
ancient inscription on Darius the Great's tomb
Caylus vase
Egyptian alabaster jar
Achaemenid inscription in the Kharg Island
Inscription on Kharg Island, Iran