In the first millennium BCE Babylonia went through turbulent times – dominated by Assyria and Persia and having established its own Empire between these periods of suppression, Babylonia’s drive for independence was unbroken https://t.co/gX0cimukNL
In the Bisitun rock inscription in Kermanshah (Iran) the Achaemenid king Darius the Great (522-486 BCE) reports on the unrest around his accession to the throne and how he fought back several rebellions in the Persian Empire. Even twice in Babylonia https://t.co/gX0cimukNL
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