Suez inscriptions of Darius the Great
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Suez inscriptions of Darius the Great
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The Suez inscriptions of Darius the Great were texts written in Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian and Egyptian on five monuments erected in Wadi Tumilat, commemorating the opening of the "Canal of the Pharaohs" between the Nile and the Bitter Lakes. One of the best preserved of these monuments was a stele of pink granite, which was discovered by Charles de Lesseps, Ferdinand de Lesseps's son, in 1866, 30 kilometres from Suez near Kabret in Egypt. It was erected by Darius the Great, king of the Ac
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_inscriptions_of_Darius_the_Great
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2005-04-18T16:49:07Z
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2024-08-29T06:43:07Z
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