The Games of Chess and Backgammon in Sasanian Persia
Reference to board games in Persia can be found as early as the Achaemenid period, where according to Plutarch a board game with dice was played by Artaxerxes.
Inaros' rebellion Against Artaxerxes I and the Athenian Disaster in Egypt
The reconstruction of the rebellion of Inaros here will be based on Diodorus Siculus, Thucydides and Ctesias, but also on Aramaic and Egyptian documents from Egypt written in demotic script.”