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Darius’s claim to have created the Old Persian script has been a contentious issue in modern scholarship, but most scholars accept Darius’s claim. See Briant, Persian Empire, pp. 111, 138; and Stronach, “Darius at Pasargadae: A Neglected Source for the History of Early Persia,” Topoi: Orient-Occident, Suppl. 1 (Lyon, 1997), pp. 351–363.
See David Stronach, Pasargadae. A report on the excavations conducted by the British Institute of Persian Studies from 1961 to 1963 (Oxford, 1978), pp. 95–97; and “On the Genesis of the Old Persian Cuneiform Script,” in Contribution à l’histoire de l’Iran: mélanges offerts à Jean Perrot, ed. F. Vallat (Paris, 1990), pp. 195–203.
For an overview of archaeological evidence for Anshan and the problems of interpretation associated with this site, see Yeki bud, yeki nabud: Essays on the Archaeology of Iran in Honor of William M. Sumner, ed. N. Miller and K. Abdi (Los Angeles, 2003), especially the articles by T.C. Young, David Stronach and R. Boucharlat (Chapters 22–24).
Michael Heltzer, “The Trade of Crete and Cyprus with Syria and Mesopotamia and their Eastern Tin-Sources in the XVIII-XVII Centuries B.C.,” Minos 24 (1989), pp. 7–28; Eric H. Cline, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford: Tempus Reparatum, 1994), pp. 24–27, 126–128.
