 Western scholars have proposed that "Achiachar" is a variant form of the name "Cyaxares I of Media", who historically did destroy Nineveh, in 612 BC.In some versions of the legend of the Wandering Jew, his true name is held to be Ahasuerus.This is the name by which Immanuel Kant refers to the Wandering Jew in "The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God".