Tomb of Cyrus
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The Tomb of Cyrus is the burial place of the ancient Cyrus the Great of Persia. Cyrus the Great[1] Cyrus the Great (c. 590 BC; August 529 BC or 530 BC), or Cyrus II of Persia[2] was a Persian Shahenshah (or Emperor), who founded of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty. This empire thence expanded under his rule, as Cyrus eventually conquered the majority of Southwest Asia as well as much of Central Asia, from Egypt and the Hellespont to the Indus River in the east, to create the most expansive nation the world had seen up until that era.[3]
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- R.M.Ghias Abadi (2004) Achaemenid Inscriptions, 2nd edition, publisher Shiraz Navid ISBN 964-358-015-6
- Amelie Kuhrt (1995) The Ancient Near East: ca. 3000-330 BC, chapter 13, p. 647, Routledge ISBN 0-4151-6762-0
- Xenophon, Anabasis I. IX; cf. M.A.Dandamaev Cyrus II, within Encyclopaedia Iranica
