Achaemenid tattoo

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Cyrus went down in history as one of the most benevolent conquerors of all time, allowing his subjects to live—and worship—as they pleased.

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Nicolas Sanchez on Instagram: "Cyrus the Great for Raha Great pleasure to do this piece Cyrus II of Persia (c. 600–530 BC; Old Persian: 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 Kūruš), commonly known as Cyrus the Great, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian empire. Under his rule, the empire embraced all of the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of Western Asia and much of Central Asia. Spanning from the Mediterranean Sea and Hellespont…

Download this stock image: Carved relief of soldiers of Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid - or First Persian - Empire (ca. 550–330 BCE). It is situated 60 km northeast of the city of Shiraz in Fars Province, Iran. - TWM2N9 from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

In my first semester of college (1969) I wrote a term paper on Zoroastrianism. That paper affected my fundamentalist understanding of Satan and hell, though it did not come to fruition until severa…