Ardashir Orontid Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

n King of Orontid Dynasty

Orontid Dynasty

The Orontid Dynasty The Orontid Dynasty The Orontid Dynasty (also known by their native name, Yervanduni was a hereditary Armenian dynasty and the rulers of the successor state to the Iron Age kingdom of Ararat...

reigning in the second half of 6th century BC.

One of rare memories about Ardashir was that before his death he gathered his sons and told duty of every king of Orontid Dynasty is building of at least one water channel, which would live in centuries, but he hadn't manage to built one, so he left all his fortune to his sons for them to build them for him.