- The statue was made upon the orders of Darius to be placed in Heliopolis (Atoum's temple) to show the man who sees it that "persian man took Egypt".
- Under Darius' rule, the kingdom stretched to the Indus Valley in the far east and portions of north and northeast Africa including Egypt, Libya, and Sudan.
- Dārīus (or Dārēus) is the common Latin form of Greek Dareîos, itself a shortened rendering of Old Persian five-syllable Dārayavauš (spelled d-a-r-y-v-u-š)...
- A member of a collateral branch of the Achaemenidian royal family, Darius apparently was not close to the throne when Cambyses died in 522 B.C...
- Darius I "the Great" (549-486 BCE) was a king of Persia who ruled for 35 years, from September 522 BCE to October 486 BCE.
- Darius I ( M.Ö. . İran toprakları , Elam , Mezopotamya , Suriye , Mısır , kuzey Hindistan ve Küçük Asya'daki Yunan kolonileri de dahil olmak üzere, Pers İmparatorluğu'nu zirvesinde...
- In 514 BC Darius crossed the Black Sea and even went as far as Eastern Europe to challenge a group called the Scythians.
- Böylece Darius, Pontus ve Ermeni dağlarının vahşi uluslarına boyun eğdirdi ve Pers egemenliğini Kafkasya'ya kadar genişletti; aynı nedenlerle Saka ve diğer...
- Darius the Great (Darayawush I) (ca. 549 B.C.E. – 485/486 B.C.E.; Old Persian Dārayawuš: "He Who Holds Firm the Good"...
- The Achaemenid Empire during Darius' reign controlled the largest fraction of the world's population of any empire in history.