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Destroy the Mullahs!
1 posted on 06/08/2003 7:36:40 PM PDT by freedom44
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on or off iran ping
2 posted on 06/08/2003 7:37:06 PM PDT by freedom44
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The Tomb of King Cyrus is found in Persopilas

http://oznet.net/cyrus/alexande.htm

Alexander had arrived at the site of the Persian capital of Pasargade and had come upon the tomb of an earlier, celebrated world conqueror, the Persian King Cyrus II, known as Cyrus the great. In his day, Cyrus had founded an empire of unprecedented size and power. Because Alexander hoped to surpass the Persian monarch's achievements, he felt compelled to pause here and pay homage to his acclaimed predecessor.
One of Alexander's comrades in arms, Aristobulus, gave an account of their visit to the tomb, which later found its way into the writings of the first-century-BC Greek geographer Strabo. It was "a tower of no great size," Aristobulus reported, "concealed beneath the thicket of trees, in its lower parts massive, but its upper parts having a roof and shrine with a very narrow entrance." The Macedonians cautiously entered the building, all of 200 years old at the time. They found themselves in the royal burial chamber, where according to Aristobulus, they beheld "a golden couch and table with drinking cups, and a golden coffin."
There was also an inscription, cited "from memory," by Aristobulus: "Oh man, I am Cyrus, who founded the empire of the Persians and was king of Asia. Grudge me not therefore this monument." The Greek historian Plutarch, writing Alexander's biography in the late first centuruy AD, reported that as a mark of respect Alexander had ordered a Greek translation of the Persian text to be carved alongside it. Plutarch also offered a somewhat more melodramatic version of Cyrus's original text, which may have been taken from a source other than Aristobulus or embellished in its passage through the intervening centuries:"Oh man, whosoever thou art and from whencesoever thou comest, for that thou wilt come I know, I am Cyrus, who founded the empire of the Persians. Grudge me not therefore, this little earth that covers my bo
3 posted on 06/08/2003 7:41:23 PM PDT by freedom44
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Bump!
5 posted on 06/08/2003 8:12:19 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -- P.J.)
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To: freedom44
Too bad they don't become Christians but they had better religions in Iran before the Arabs forced them into the Arab Muslim religion.
6 posted on 06/08/2003 8:20:22 PM PDT by FITZ
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I wonder if Iran would be interested in returning to Zoroastrianism? ...just curious.
10 posted on 06/08/2003 9:07:35 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Peace is the prerogative of the powerful, not the weak! <Churchill, paraphrased>)
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You mean the Parsi's are back?
11 posted on 06/08/2003 9:16:59 PM PDT by USMMA_83
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"Clerics are now more likely to insist that history since the arrival of Islam in the 7th century should be emphasized"

Idiots. What history? The worst thing to happen to Persia was the arrival of the Islamic hordes.

The Persians already had a great kingdom and culture and the world's first monotheistic religion - Zoroastrianism. They succeeded in destroying a Roman army at Carrhae and thus setting an eastern limit to the Roman Empire.

There was nothing those desert bandits from Arabia could offer the civlizaed and sophisticated Persians but devastation.

Unfortunately the Ayatollahs have continued with this tradition.


15 posted on 06/24/2004 9:19:15 AM PDT by ZULU
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A Blast from the Past.

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