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• We also find that official correspondence in the Medo-Persian Empire was carried out in Syriac, or Aramaic. As we read in Ezra:
• Ezra 4:6   And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem. 7 And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
• This whole section of Ezra (Ezra 4:8–6:18 and 7:12–26) is written in Aramaic. It is the section related to the Medo-Persian Empire.