Persia
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Eye of the King
Eye of the king (Old Persian Spasaka?): inspector in the Achaemenid empire. Sometimes called "eyes and ears".In his charming description of the youth of the founder of the Achaemenid empire, Cyrus the Great, the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus suggests…Ezra on Cyrus
In October 539 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus took Babylon, the ancient capital of an oriental empire covering modern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. In a broader sense, Babylon was the ancient world's capital of scholarship and science. The subject…
Family tree of Amestris |
Family tree of the later Pharnacids |
Family tree of the later Pharnacids (Barsine and her husbands) |
Family tree of the later Pharnacids (Pharnabazus) |
Firuzabad, Bridge |
Firuzabad, City wall with gate |
Firuzabad, City, Baths |
Firuzabad, City, Central tower |