The Achaemenid kings of Persia ruled between the ... and on good terms with his soldiers. And it is Herodotus who provides one of the most complete accounts of Cyrus’s origins, albeit including ...

Previous Achaemenid kings had granted them the privilege ... The great city was given over to the Macedonian soldiers to loot and destroy, while the population was massacred and enslaved.

Among the findings were stone-cutting tools, extraction evidence, and significant quantities of limestone and iron ore, which may have been used in crafting metal joints for Achaemenid stone ...