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)