About the book: 2013 / Two and a half thousand years ago, the Persian king Cyrus the Great fell in a battle with the Scythians. By order of the Scythian queen Tamaris, his severed head was put into a wineskin of blood to quench the bloodthirstiness of the great conqueror. Thus began the history of Iran - the ancestral home of the legendary Aryans. Since then, numerous wars have not subsided in the ancient land of Iran-Ariana. The book covers a huge time period and reveals to us unknown pages of the history of one of the most ancient states on earth. This allows you to take a fresh look at already familiar facts and get to know the country better, which may soon be in the focus of world news thanks to its confrontation with the United States.