Darius I, aka Darius the Great, c. 550–486 BC. Third king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Seen here with state umbrellas and attendants, from a carving on one of the door jambs of the palace of Darius I at Persepolis. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915

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