As you likely guessed, there’s a reason why Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown spends so much time talking about King Darius. King Darius is like a classic Soulsborne boss stuck into a Prince of ...

In 494 B.C., Persian ruler Darius the Great crushed the Ionian-Greek rebels at the Battle of Lade and then destroyed the Ionian city of Miletus. Having brought the Ionians to heel, Darius sought ...

One of the few virtues of the recent Netflix series on Alexander the Great was the prominent role given to his principal opponent, Darius III of Persia. But in this retelling of history ...

Distinguished by their headdresses, Median and Persian soldiers parade across this relief from the Apadana ... of mercy”) in present-day Iran. Darius I founded the city in 518 B.C. and built ...

Within its long history, Prince of Persia has always been better at leading ... into disrepair following the death of the wise King Darius. And as a cursed mountain, the few remaining inhabitants ...

This remained relatively true until Ubisoft got exploratory with Prince of Persia via Ubisoft’s Montpellier ... Mixed into the narrative is the lore behind King Darius, too.

Over a 10-year period, fighting across modern-day Turkey, the Middle East, and as far away as Afghanistan and Pakistan, Alexander routed Persian king Darius III, taking the empire for his own.

The Aramaic inscription read “Year 24 of Darius,” dating it to 498 BCE. The short text thus records the name of the Persian king Darius the Great (Darius I), the father of Achashverosh.