Yet another downloadable civilization has been released for Civilization 6, this time the Persian Empire, led by Cyrus the Great. Also known as the Achaemanid Empire, Cyrus founded and expanded ...

Round 2: MILITARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Alexander conquered the entire Persian Empire and extended Greek influence across Egypt, Persia, and India — and never once lost a battle. Despite commanding a ...

Profile of a conqueror Cyrus the Great, whose Persian Empire stretched from Turkey to India in the sixth century B.C., is pictured in a headdress in this 19th-century A.D. engraving.

Cyrus the Great (or the Elder) is known to many through the Cyrus Cylinder exhibit preserved in the British Museum, which tells us that he was chosen by God for his special virtues to become ‘king of ...

Like many ancient rulers, the Persian conqueror Cyrus the Great (ca 590– ca 529 B.C.), also known as Cyrus II, was born of royalty. On the death of his father, Cambyses I, Cyrus ruled the ...

Cyrus, who ruled in the 6th century B.C., is celebrated by many Iranians for founding the Achaemenid Empire and establishing the first universal declaration of human rights.

Guest: Reza Zarghamee is and environmental lawyer and history author. He is the author of acclaimed book Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World (Iran’s Age of Empire).

When Cyrus conquered the Babylonian Empire, he enabled these Jews to return home and rebuild their temple. This Second Temple, completed c. 516 BCE, lasted until 70 CE, when the Romans destroyed it.

Origins of empire When crowned king of Persia in 559 B.C., Cyrus II was little more than a tribal leader of the Parsua (Persian) people who lived in the south of present-day Iran.