When we think of the great rulers of antiquity, we usually picture monuments designed to overwhelm the senses. The pharaohs built towering, pointed pyramids; Roman emperors favored massive, sprawling mausoleums wrapped in columns; and later Persian kings carved intricate, colossal facades directly into vertical cliff faces at Naqsh-e Rostam.Yet, the resting place of Cyrus the Great—the visionary founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire—shuns all…
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