For this reason, Cyrus became (and remains) a legendary figure in Jewish history, though he was not Jewish himself. He was more likely a devotee of Zoroastrianism, which was fervently embraced by his ...

Banners in Israel have merged, calling Trump 'Cyrus the Great' as Gaza peace plan starts, linking him to the Persian king who ...

The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to ...

The Islamic Golden Age thrived as Greek thought, preserved by the Byzantines and rendered into Arabic, powered Baghdad’s ...

A ceasefire in Gaza has created a hopefully enduring–albeit uneasy–pause in the two-year Israel-Hamas war, with the recent ...

Israelis have likened Donald Trump to the ancient Persian ruler Cyrus the Great, celebrating him as a modern-day liberator ...

Billboards and posters in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel today declared: 'Cyrus the Great is alive!'. The ruler, ...

The rest of Iran remains mired in poverty. Public expressions of criticism or calls for economic relief are met with violent IRGC suppression of such heretical talk. It gets worse. Iran has long been ...

For many Jews, Cyrus represents a foreign ruler seen as a divine instrument in restoring Israel’s destiny — a story of ...

So, the banners comparing Trump to Cyrus appear to be drawing on the story of Cyrus’ role in freeing Jewish captives. In this ...

With the hostages’ return, the Knesset speaker linked Trump to the ancient Persian lord. As their last living hostages ...

In the archaeological site of Kerameikos in Athens, Greece, there is an ancient tomb of an Indian Buddhist monk named ...