The Battle of Megiddo

The Near East in the 6th century was dominated by two empires. The Medes held most of the Elamite lands, the Iranian Plateau and the Uratian lands. Egypt had been firmly forced out of Asiatic politics and back into African lands. It is believed that a group of Indo-Europeans had migrated southwards into the lands of the Medes from the Eurasian steppe. These people would settle the old Elamite and now median city of Anshan but it would be one of their kings, a man called Cyrus, who rose up against the Median empire from within. He would claim to be the descendant of a man called Akamanids,