# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/achaemenes
# Generated: 2026-09-01T18:48:16.630Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/achaemenes"
name: "Achaemenes"
slug: "achaemenes"
description: "He gave his name to the dynasty that built the largest empire the ancient world had yet seen, then vanished into total silence. No deeds, no dates, maybe no person at all — just the ghost at the root of the Achaemenid line."
tagline: "Possibly mythical apical ancestor of the Achaemenid dynasty, living in the 7th century BC and possibly a ruler of Parsumash, a vassal state of the Median Empire"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Achaemenid_lineage.jpg/330px-Achaemenid_lineage.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "-800"
deathDate: "-700"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.96
  momentum:             0.2425467407781708
  historical:           22.277776
  currentAttention:     1.34748189321206
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Politician"
    slug: "politician"
  - name: "Politics"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Achaemenes stands as the progenitor and eponymous founder of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, the family that would eventually rule from the Indus to the Aegean. Beyond that founding role, nothing survives: no record of his life, no actions, no certainty he even existed outside myth. If he was a historical figure rather than a genealogical invention, he would have lived around 700 BC. The dynasty carried his name forward through centuries of conquest and administration, while the man himself remained a cipher — the ancestor who existed only to explain everyone who came after.