One of the few virtues of the recent Netflix series on Alexander the Great was the prominent ... s war was launched against Darius, the rival king rarely features in accounts.

But Cartledge also says Alexander was a great propagandist ... You can’t understand Alexander if you don’t understand Darius, the last king of the Persian Empire.” Not for nothing is ...

A rare 2,500-year-old inscription, bearing the name of the Persian king Darius the Great, was found in southern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said. The inscription, which was ...