Rare Inscription Bearing the Name of King Darius the Great, the Father of King Achashverosh Found In Israel
In December 2022, Eylon Levy, international media advisor to the President of the State of Israel Isaac Herzog, and his friend Yakov Ashkenazi, visited the Tel Lachish National Park and chanced on a small potsherd with some inscribed letters. The Aramaic inscription on the fired potsherd reads “Year 24 of Darius,” dating it to 498 BCE.