The first Sovereign of Achaemenids, Cyrus, and “Life of Kartli’s” Nimrod

Abstract

As a result of detailed analysis of sources, we came to the conclusion
that the well-known fighting in the ancient world between
Cyrus, the first ruler of Achaemenid Persia and the Scythian tribes of
Massagatae – which resulted with the death of the former - took place
in North Adarbadagan, somewhere between the Svani and Urmia
lakes and not in Middle Asia, in the vicinity of River Amu Darya as it
was universally accepted in Historiography. The murder of Cyrus was
among the most uncommon phenomena for the ancient world.The
deep resonance that it brought about among middle eastern people,
was therefore only natural. Hence, the event was disseminated among
the people in many different versions as early as in the epoch of
Herodotus. A version of the fight in question is preserved in Georgian
Chronicles in the form of a fight between the Thargoids with the
Nimrod, and aslo in the Old Armenian Historiography in the form of
a fight with Thargoids’ (Hyrcanians) Bell.