leading Bagoas to make Artaxerxes’ son Arses king before he, too, was removed. Bagoas then turned to a popular but minor figure, who took the throne as Darius III around 336 BCE. If Bagoas ...

A rare 2,500-year-old inscription, bearing the name of the Persian king Darius the Great, was found in southern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said.