Cyrus’ exemplary leadership forged a patchwork of ethnicities into an empire that founded Persian rule in the Middle East, Professor Lynette Mitchell explains. Read the Transcript Cyrus the Great (or ...

and other great nations like the Jewish people, rebuild their history and culture. Advertisement God used Cyrus, the first King of the Persian Empire, to return the Jewish people to the Land of ...

The turquoise blue water has been called the Persian Gulf since at least 550BC, when the Persian dynasty of Cyrus the Great ruled an empire that ... weighed in with a map of the Persian Gulf ...

The map locates the Persian Gulf, and the surrounding ... since at least 550 B.C., when the Persian dynasty of Cyrus the Great ruled an empire that spanned from India to the edges of western ...

Never before had women enjoyed as much freedom and authority as in the Persian Empire around 500 BC. Founded by Cyrus the Great, the Persian Empire, although patriarchal, was centuries ahead of ...

According to Herodotus and later Greek authors, it was this shift in behavior that triggered the decadence of the Persian Empire and the corruption of its great kings. Cyrus grants freedom to the ...

Birth of the Persian Empire (I.B.Tauris, 2005), especially the chapter ‘Cyrus the Great and the kingdom of Anshan’ by D.T. Potts ...

Victory of Cyrus over Lydia's Croesus at the Battle of Thymbra, 546 BC Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Walter Hutchinson, 1877 Cyrus lives. Founder of the Persian Empire, the biggest multiethnic empire ...

However, their power would soon be eclipsed by the rise of Cyrus the Great, founder of the mighty Achaemenid Persian Empire. Astyages was the last king ... empires around 600 BC in a map by William ...