INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
archaeologists has found adobe bricks while they dug experimental trenches to propose legal boundaries for an ancient site situated in the
1m by 1m, were carved by the team led by archaeologist Hamid Haririan, the official said.The discovery of adobe bricks is of high importance
plateau land that came to be known as Media.Media, ancient country of northwestern Iran, generally corresponding to the modern regions of
Azarbaijan, Kurdestan, and parts of Kermanshah.As mentioned by Britanica, Media first appears in the texts of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser
715) with the creation of the Median kingdom and the founding of its capital city at Ecbatana (modern Hamadan), it was probably not before
625 BC that Cyaxares, grandson of Deioces, succeeded in uniting into a kingdom the many Iranian-speaking Median tribes
In 614 he captured Ashur, and in 612, in alliance with Nabopolassar of Babylon, his forces stormed Nineveh, putting an end to the Assyrian
The victors divided the Assyrian provinces among themselves, with the Median king taking over a large part of Iran, northern Assyria, and
parts of Armenia.Britannica says in many respects the internal organization of the Median empire probably resembled that of Assyria, but
Since no Median written documents of any kind have ever been uncovered, their spiritual and economic life is also a matter of conjecture.By
the victory in 550 of the Persian chief Cyrus II the Great over his suzerain, Astyages of Media, the Medes were made subject to the Persians
In the new Achaemenian Empire, they retained a prominent position; in honor and war, they stood next to the Persians, and their court
ceremonial was adopted by the new sovereigns, who in the summer months resided in Ecbatana.AFM
