Sometime in the first half of the 20th century, two gold tablets relating to Ariaramnes were found in Ecbatana, modern
Hamadan. These gold tablets allegedly documented the reigns of Ariaramnes and his son
Arsames and were written in
Old Persian in the first person. This is the only evidence from the time documenting his reign and thus this branch of the
Achaemenid royal family. Another attestation of his reign is the later Behistun Inscription, where his great-grandson
Darius I states that eight Achaemenid kings preceded him - and then, he must be counting Ariaramnes as a king. His
English name is derived - via
Latin - from the
Greek . In Modern
Persian, his name is spelled اریارمنه. ==References==