Engraving of Cyrus the Great. Cyrus governed with singular tolerance and mercy; his rule has been heralded through the ages. Like many ancient rulers, the Persian conqueror Cyrus the Great (ca 590 ...

Alexander the Great and Cyrus the Great had distinct, but equally remarkable ascents to power. Alexander, born in 356 BCE to King Philip II of Macedonia, benefited from his father’s military ...

Frederick, king of Prussia, perhaps. Gandhi was never called “the Great,” nor was Winston Churchill, though both clearly were. As for Cyrus, the sixth-century b.c.e. king of Persia ...

The primary biblical warrant that evangelical Christians use to justify support for Donald Trump is the figure of Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who conquered the Babylonians in the 6th century ...

When Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon in 539 B.C., he ... “As well as a transport system, as well as an economic system, as well as an administration, you need to have policy, an ideal of ...

Cyrus built his tomb at Pasargadae, Iran, where he still has pride of place as the country’s greatest pre-Islamic hero. While Herod the Great built the Western Wall in Jerusalem, it was part of ...

In doing so, the Israeli leader likened Trump to Harry Truman, Lord Balfour — and Cyrus the Great. I want to tell you that the Jewish people have a long memory, so we remember the proclamation ...

better known as Cyrus the Great, as Persia’s new emperor, was not even intended to be seen again when it was buried in the foundations of a Babylonian temple (probably to sanctify it ...

A discussion of the life and legacy of Cyrus the Great, who is said to have destroyed Babylon and enabled the Jews to rebuild the temple at Jerusalem - a contested story. Show more Melvyn Bragg ...