7th-6th centuries B.C. Babylon’s golden age under Chaldean rule is ended by the Persian king Cyrus the Great in 539 B.C. To the 7th century A.D. Macedonians, Seleucids, and Sasanians control ...

we remember the proclamation of the great King Cyrus the Great … he proclaimed that the Jewish exiles in Babylon can come back and rebuild our temple in Jerusalem … And we remember how a few ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.

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 ...