Beneath shadowed skies, a mother’s silent hope flickers—a secret smuggled through bitter walls. A commander’s heart clenches, torn between duty and mercy. A newborn cloaked in destiny, whispered into a shepherd’s arms, vanishing into a quiet exile.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2KJ9R2C

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How two friends finished a "drunk marathon" around Columbus

Their walk went viral on Reddit and left them extremely sore.

Axios Columbus

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From the eastern stairs of the Apadana of Persepolis, this frieze shows a lion attacking a bull. While the frieze dates to the C6th-C5th BCE, the imagery is much older and symbolically connected with the Indo-Iranians from the 4th millennium BCE.

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The Medes or Medians were a group of Indo-Iranian-speaking people from central Asia who migrated westwards and entered northern Iran around the end of the 2nd millennium BCE. #History #Medes #AncientPersia #Ecbatana #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Medes/
Medes

The Medes or Medians were a group of Indo-Iranian-speaking people from central Asia who migrated westwards and entered northern Iran around the end of the 2nd millennium BCE. They settled in the highlands...

World History Encyclopedia

I took as token of surrender
Strange gifts received from silent sender:
A mouse, five arrows, frog and bird.
He walked away without a word,
Requiring no acute retort.
But soon I learned their true import:
That we’d be wise to swim or fly
Or hide… else in five days we die.

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Luxury and power: Persia to Greece

Drawing on dazzling objects, this exhibition explores how luxury shaped the political landscape of Eurasia in the first millennium BC.

The British Museum