>the Achaimenids are the dynasty founded by Achaimenos (I'd be interested to see how that name looks in the Persian original)? Achaimenos = "Hakhamanesh": the "kh" sound is equivalent to German "ch." The dynasty he founded (Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, Artaxerxes, etc. - the Persian originals are rather different!) therefore is "Hakhamaneshi." -= Tuck =-