Cyrus vs. Alexander: Battle of the Greats Welcome to WatchMojo, and in today’s installment of Versus, we’re pitting Cyrus and Alexander — two of history’s greatest conquerors — against each to ...

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).

For centuries, Cyrus the Great has stood in global memory as far more than the architect of a vast empire. At a time when conquest usually meant destruction and domination, he introduced a radically ...

Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. With both parties agreeing to terms, the first stages of a peace plan in Gaza are in motion. US President Donald Trump is credited ...

Born about 600 BCE in what is now southwestern Iran, Cyrus “the Great” is considered the founder of the Persian Achaemenid empire. He is remembered as “the Great” to distinguish him from his ...

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 the ...

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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).