The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of ...

The Achaemenid kings of Persia ruled between ... Their final face-off saw the Persian army defeated and Cyrus killed. Tomyris ordered her troops to collect Cyrus’s body from the battlefield ...

the road to the Persian heartland lay open. There was no Achaemenid army that could be brought to oppose Alexander and his Macedonians. The rich capitals of the Achaemenid Empire lay exposed to a ...

Among the findings were stone-cutting tools, extraction evidence, and significant quantities of limestone and iron ore, which may have been used in crafting metal joints for Achaemenid stone ... the ...