History of Iran 6: The Great Shock at Marathon – Νενικήκαμεν!

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It was there that the story of Iran came to pass that Cyrus, the founder of the Persian Empire, fell in battle far to the east in Central Asia in 530 BCE. (See more about it here.) Then his son Cambyses II succeeded him. He wanted to increase the glory of the empire and in 525 he led an army against Egypt. The Egyptians had maintained one of the oldest and most important civilizations in the world for 2,000...