The Dafineh Museum in Tehran has reopened after 8 years with a new artifact that may be one of the most significant relics of the ancient world: the Scepter of Darius the Great (522–486 BC). Crafted from gold and lapis lazuli, it was discovered in 1959 at the Apadana Palace in Persepolis. [1205×871]
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That’s awesome.
How beautiful, human beings from the beginning have loved art with precious stones and metals.
Daniel 6:6
*So these administrators and satraps went as a group to the king and said: “May King Darius live forever!* *^(7)* *The royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers and governors have all agreed that the king should issue an edict and enforce the decree that anyone who prays to any god or human being during the next thirty days, except to you, Your Majesty, shall be thrown into the lions’ den.* *^(8)* *Now, Your Majesty, issue the decree and put it in writing so that it cannot be altered—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.”* *^(9)* *So King Darius put the decree in writing.*
Darius was a great man, after the verses above (Daniel and the lions den story) he allowed all people to live in relative peace and practice their own religions, its so cool to see a physical item actual owned and used by this man.
Is this legit? I couldn’t find anything about it
Esther 5;
*” And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre”*
Cool.
Edit; oops, wrong king, that was Darius’s son.
Interesting coincidence. In the Bible, Esther chapter 8, Persian king Xerxes, also known as Ahasuerus in some versions, is mentioned having a scepter, and in the same period.
Mehh. Sure its incredible it survived, but give me a bone flute that’s 42-43,000 years old. The idea that, if not homo sapiens, a neanderthal was making music. That, is mind-blowing. Plus, there are examples of jewellery & painting kits dating back 100,000 years. So, a very cool find but the most significant?
Achaemenid Persians had the best tint of blue.
What went into that intense blue color?
Incredible craftsmanship and it always amazes me that these almost 3000-year-old relics can survive
Seems like someone would have looted that, over the centuries.
Oh shit they got themselves a magic wand
I always wonder how this stuff happens? Something just gets left in a palace while everything erodes around it? Seems like the sceptre would have been looted long long ago.
Was the palace buried in a mudslide or something?
That’s clearly a lightsaber y’all
Fascinating
I’d love to know the details of the excavation. Hard to believe something like this survives unless it’s a grave good that gets very lucky and not robbed.
I recall reading that Alexander the Great’s weapons and armor were kept in his mausoleum in Alexandria for centuries. Wonder if any of it is still around.
Whoa…that is something intense.