Cyrus & the End of the Babylonian Exile
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King Cyrus II (600-530 BC), a vassal of the Medians based on the old land of Elam now called Fars/Persia by its new Indo-European overlords, had revolted around 553 BC against his master and grandfather King Astyages with the help of general Harpagus, w…
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