Persian King Xerxes (Biblical Ahasuerus)
r. 486-465 BCE
Back in Persia Cyrus was succeeded by his son Cambyses II, followed by a second son Bardiya who was murdered by his cousin Darius I. Darius married Atossa, Cyrus’ daughter. Their son was allegedly Xerxes, better known in the Bible as Ahasuerus.
Pictured here is Crown Prince Xerxes standing behind his father Darius the Great in a stone relief from the main banquet hall at the royal palace at Persepolis, Persia - today’s southwest Iran.
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Crown prince Xerxes, known in the Book of Esther as King Ahasuerus, stands behind his father Darius the Great in a stone relief from the main banquet hall at the royal palace at Persepolis, Persia.
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