516-515

Updated: May 14, 2025

We cannot date, unless it be by approximation, these various troubles; but there is reason to believe that they were almost all contained within a space not exceeding five or six years. The date of the Behistun Inscription is fixed by internal evidence to about B.C. 516-515 in other words, to the fifth or sixth year of the reign of Darius.

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