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Persian Immortals Frieze and Writing, Palace of Darius I, Suse. C. 500 BC. Full Image

Reconstruction of a Glazed brick frieze of the Palace of Darius the Great in Suse, one of the capitals of the Achaemenid Empire, depicting fourteen Persian warriors at the sides of a column of Persian text in which the name of Darius can be recognized. The frieze was probably inspired by the brick friezes of Babylon, although the technique is different. That may be a legacy from the Middle Elamite Period, which saw the appearance of decoration in glazed siliceous brick.

The warriors in the frieze are believed to be The Immortals, also known as the Persian Immortals. This name given by Herodotus to an elite heavily-armed infantry queued unit of 10,000 soldiers in the army of the Achaemenid Empire. This force also conformed the Imperial Guard. Herodotus describes the 'Immortals' as a heavy infantry professional corps constantly kept at a strength of exactly 10,000 men. The unit's name...

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