Cyrus the Great
The Ancients
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The Relationship Between Darius and Cyrus
archaeology reveals that the gateway was systematically demolished, probably by Darius. He then quite ostentatiously built a 30-meter platform above the area of the gateway which would fundamentally look down on his predecessors ambitions for building. So that is one of the most remarkable things that's come out of the archaeology. Beyond that, our attention then really only turns to the last years of Cyrus's life and we don't know anything about his policies or what his aims were.
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