Despite beginning his reign as a vassal king subject to the Median Empire, which he would later conquer ... great kings. Cyrus grants freedom to the Jewish exiles held in Babylon in this 19th ...

The Hittites later conquer the city ... Daniel’s prediction did come to pass: In 539 B.C., Babylon fell to the Persian king Cyrus the Great, and the Jews returned home from exile.

CYRUS THE GREAT (309 pp.)—Harold Lamb—Doubleday—($4.50). The wily moneylender was puzzled by his casual conversation with the two strange horsemen who had ridden into Babylon that day in 539 ...

The two are teaming up for the new show "Cyrus vs. Cyrus: Design and Conquer." The show follows their interior design business in Nashville, Tenn. The Cyrus matriarch told Fox News at the NBC ...

A discussion of the life and legacy of Cyrus the Great, who is said to have destroyed Babylon and enabled the Jews to rebuild the temple at Jerusalem - a contested story. Show more Melvyn Bragg ...