Ruler
Darius I
Persian king (Twenty-seventh Dynasty)
522 – 486 BCE
Regnal dates after Shaw (2000); they are more precise for this period than for earlier ones.
Biography
He completed a canal between the Nile and the Red Sea and set up stelae in several languages along its route to record it. He also built a temple in the Kharga Oasis.
Key facts
Certainty: Established
Stelae Darius I set up along the canal route, in Egyptian, Old Persian, Elamite and Akkadian, record his completion of a Nile–Red Sea canal.
- Pierre Briant (2002) “From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire” Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake