Head of a bull from the Median civilization dating back to 678 BC
It is displayed in the Warsaw Museum.
The Medes were one of the peoples that settled in the areas of the Zagros Mountains in ancient times, where they lived among the other half, the Hurrians, in the northwest of what is now known as Iraqi Kurdistan.
Their homeland, according to current geography, included Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, and the Kardukh region.
Based on the writings of Herodotus, they occupied the mountainous region in northwestern Iran and the northeastern and eastern region of Mesopotamia located in the Hamadan region (Ecbatana).
Their appearance in Iran is believed to have occurred during the 8th century BC. In the seventh century BC
The Medes had no written sources about their history, only foreign sources about them from the Assyrians, Babylonians, Armenians and Greeks. The accounts related to the Medes mentioned by Herodotus left the image of a powerful people who would form an empire at the beginning of the seventh century BC that lasted until 550 BC, and played a decisive role in the fall of Assyrian Empire.
He competed with the powerful kingdoms of Lydia and Babylon.
The first mention of them in Greek manuscripts was in the year 836 BC, when it was mentioned that the Medes paid tribute to the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III.
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