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Indeed, it was the trilingual (Old Persian, Elamite, and Neo-Baby lonian) inscription of Darius that provided the key for the decipherment of several ancient writings.
However, the Persians still held a grudge and when Darius’ son, Xerxes, re-invaded Greece by land and sea in far greater strength ten years later, the Greeks’ defeat seemed inevitable.
They include Clients Consulting a Sorceress and Strolling Musicians, vivid little friezes of an octopus, a cat catching a quail, and the huge exciting mural of Alexander driving Darius of Persia from the battlefield at Issus in 333 b.c.
However, Athenian involvement provoked the Persian king Darius to invade the Greek mainland.
Rock inscriptions left by Emperor Darius probably inspired the pillar-edicts of Indian Emperor Ashoka in the third century b.c.