Darius I of this empire claimed that Bardiya, the king he killed & replaced, had been an impostor
The Medes had originally been the dominant Iranian group 
in the region, .... Bardiya (Greek: Smerdis or Tanaoxares/Tanyoxarkes), who had 
been ... Darius made a similar claim when he later captured Babylon, 
announcing... [DOC] [TLE] Achaemenid Empire, Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great, Xerxes the ... [PAR] Cyrus did not venture into Egypt, as he himself died in battle, fighting the ... 
Herodotus claims that when Cyrus the Great was ten years old, it was obvious 
that Cyrus ... From this marriage, Cyrus had four children: Cambyses II, Bardiya (
Smerdis), ... His uncle Arsames, who had been the king of the city-state of Parsa 
under the... [DOC] [TLE] Double Vision - Persian Fire - Erenow [PAR] The man they had slain, they claimed, was not Bardiya, the son of Cyrus, at all ... 
Could it have been merely a coincidence that the impostor had been ... he might 
have been killed and replaced by a double, had brushed the side of ...