isomorphismes

• Babylonia
• Balshazar’s Feast
• Iran-Iraq War … of 539 B.C.
• the writing on the wall: “You are weighed in the balance and found wanting, and your Kingdom is handed over to the Medes & the Persians”
• “the first real press release … we’ve got”
• Cyrus, King of all the Universe
• religious tolerance
• second temple Judaism
• Alexander the Great
• Darius
• Xenophone
• “We’re not interested in that history, we want one with this message”

by Neil MacGregor

(Source: ted.com)