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Hi NickNice to hear from you again.I don't know what "to battle" means, either. The verb that is used can mean anything, including full-scale sieges and minor skirmishes. It can certainly not be excluded that the last hour of Darius's life was more violent than the Greek and Latin sources ...

> I think you mean Susa (Susia or Tus is a city in > Khorasan in north east of Iran), as you see in > this map: I think you mean Susa (Susia or Tus is a city in > Khorasan in north east of Iran), as you see in > this map: I think you mean Susa (Susia or Tus is a city in > Khorasan in north east of I...

Since my former message seems to have broken off, I continue the text of my initial posting.-------------------------------11 [Month VIII (November): From] the palace of Babylon they brought out their goods12 [.......... for] the making of the xx[........]13 [................] for the performance of...

With my friend Bert van der Spek, I have been studying the cuneiform sources related to the reign of Alexander the Macedonian. Bert's official publication of five texts can be found in volume 13 of *Achaemenid History* (2003), which ought to be available in the library of every university with a dep...