Tomb of Cyrus the Great's by shervin19

Pasargad - Iran, Fårs Pasargadae, the capital of Cyrus the Great (559-530 BC) and also his last resting place, was a city in ancient Persia, and is today an archaeological site and one of Iran's UNESCO World Heritage Sites. According to the Elamite cuneiform of the Persepolis fortification tablets the name was rendered as Batrakataš, and the name in current usage derives from a Greek transliteration of an Old Persian Pâthragâda toponym of still uncertain meaning.

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shervin19 - Feb, 25 2011 05:02pm Pasargad - Iran, Fårs Cyrus the Great (c. 600 BC or 576 BC), also known as Cyrus II or Cyrus of Persia, was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty. Under his rule the empire embraced all the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of Southwest Asia and much of Central Asia, parts of Europe and Caucasus. From the Mediterranean sea and the Hellespont in the west to the Indus River in the east, Cyrus the Great created the largest empire the world had yet seen. shervin19 - Feb, 25 2011 05:02pm Cyrus was King of Āryāvarta, King of Persia, King of Anshan, King of Media, King of Babylon, King of Sumer and Akkad, King of the four corners of the World siffer - Feb, 27 2011 06:02pm pictures mean so much more when accompanied by important historic information. shervin19 - Jul, 13 2011 03:07pm The name "Cyrus" (a transliteration of the Greek Kυρoς) is the Greek version of the Old-Persian kûruš or Khûrvaš meaning "sun-like": the noun khûr denotes "sun" and -vaš is a suffix of likeness. In the Cyrus cylinder (see below), the great king declares his ancestry as a Persian king.