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Arzhan 2 tomb 7th C. BCE

Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe, Martina Unterländer, et al

Scythian warriors by Agimsaly Duzelkhanov

Tomb of Cyrus the Great in Pasargadae 6th C. BCE

Queen Tomyris with the decapitated head of Cyrus II by Agimsaly Duzelkhanov

Tomyris plunges the head of the dead Cyrus into a vessel of blood by Alexander Zick 19th-20th C. CE

Achaemenid soldiers against Scythians 559-330 BCE

Cyrus Defeats Spargapises by Albert Auwercx & Michiel Coxie 1670

Tomyris by unknown artist 2005

Soldiers of Cyrus tearing apart the army of Spargabise by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, After Polidoro da Caravaggio, 17th C. CE

Seal of Darius the Great 6th-5th C. BCE

Cyrus the Great by W. Camphausen 1899

Tomyris and the Massagetae by unknown artist, possibly Agimsaly Duzelkhanov

Saka Queen Tomyris by Agimsaly Duzelkhanov

Cyrus the Great with a Hemhem crown from Pasagardae 559-530 BCE

Figurine of a Persian man 500-300 BCE