Bubares

Bubares was son of Megabazus.
Bubares built the Xerxes Canal for the passage of the Second Persian invasion of Greece. Mount Athos peninsula from the stratosphere (at an altitude of 23 km), and simulation of the Xerxes Canal (seen from north).
Northern end of the Xerxes Canal, now filled up.

Bubares (Greek: Βουβάρης, died after 480 BC) was a Persian nobleman and engineer in the service of the Achaemenid Empire of the 5th century BC. He was one of the sons of Megabazus, and a second-degree cousin of Xerxes I.[1]

  1. ^ DASCYLIUM – Encyclopaedia Iranica.

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