Persidskaia imperiia - Potapov Gennadii Vladimirovich

Two and a half thousand years ago, the Persian king Cyrus the Great fell in battle with the Scythians. On the orders of the Scythian queen Tamaris his severed head was shoved into a burduk with blood - to quench the bloodthirsty of the great conqueror. Thus began the history of Iran - the ancestral home of the legendary Aryans. Since then, the ancient land of Iran-Ariana has not subsided numerous wars. The book covers a huge time period and reveals to us unknown pages of the history of one of the oldest states on earth. This allows us to take a fresh look at the familiar facts and get to know the country, which may soon be in the focus of world news thanks to its confrontation with the United States.