Creation of the royal road

Biography and services of Darius the Great

Darius I, son of Vishtasp, nicknamed Darius the Great, was the third Achaemenid king. In 522 BC, with the help of a number of the heads of the seven great Persian families, he returned the kingdom to the Achaemenid dynasty by killing Goumat the Magh, who was sitting on the throne as Berdia, the son of Cyrus the Great.…