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The Achaemenid Siege of Babylon: A City That Wouldn't Fall
In 539 BC, Cyrus the Great faced the most formidable city in the ancient world: Babylon. Its massive walls, twenty miles long and eighty feet high, had never been breached by force. In this episode, we explore how Cyrus pulled off one of the greatest military feats in history—not through a frontal assault, but by diverting the Euphrates River. We walk through the archaeological evidence, from the Nabonidus Chronicle to the Cyrus Cylinder, and weigh the accounts of Herodotus and Xenophon. How did Persian engineers lower the river's level? What role did the Babylonian priests play? And why did…
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