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Was There Really a Median Empire? - The Uncertain Empire of the Medes | Sleepy Facts About History
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Most of what we think we know about the Medes comes from a single Greek historian writing centuries after the fact, describing a unified kingdom with a magnificent capital. But when we look at the actual archaeological and contemporary textual record from ancient Iran, a very different and more uncertain picture emerges. This episode examines the Medes not as a fully realized empire waiting to be conquered by the Persians, but as a fragmented landscape of pastoralists and warriors in the…
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