Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
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The Ancients
Xerxes the Great
This is when we get a change in the tone of these royal inscriptions.
The Ancients
Xerxes the Great
So what we get now is an area really uncharted by Persian kings before.
The Ancients
Xerxes the Great
In the 1930s, when Hertzfeld and his team were excavating Persepolis, they discovered these really elegantly carved cuneiform blocks, okay?
The Ancients
Xerxes the Great
And in it, Xerxes says something really strange.
The Ancients
Xerxes the Great
So he says, you know, the usual, I am Xerxes, great king, son of Darius, and all of that.
The Ancients
Xerxes the Great
It's kind of come to my notice that in my empire, there are people who worship the divers.