Coming soon
Old Persian
Royal inscriptions provide the main evidence for Old Persian.
The dedicated study site is coming soon. This overview records the planned scope and evidence.
At a glance
Evidence and writing
- Evidence / period
- Achaemenid period, first millennium BCE
- Region
- Iran and imperial inscription sites
- Writing system
- Old Persian cuneiform
- Site status
- Coming soon
Dates describe surviving written evidence or textual traditions, not necessarily when a spoken language began or ended. Map points indicate a representative centre of evidence, not a language boundary.