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Darius I

Darius I

522 BCE–486 BCE · Late-Period

Darius I, the Achaemenid 'great king', ruled Egypt as a pharaoh of the Persian Dynasty 27. In the Egyptian record he appears largely as a constructive ruler: he completed the canal linking the Nile to the Red Sea, built the temple of Hibis in the Kharga Oasis, and ordered a codification of Egyptian law. He is included here as a pharaoh of Egypt, though his primary biography belongs to the Persian and Greek record.

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