Iran / Persia: Queen Tomyris of the Massagetae (c. 530 BCE) as represented by Andrea del Castagno (1420-1457) in a fresco, c. 1450

The Greek historian Herodotus records than Queen Tomyris of the Massagetae defeated Cyrus the Great in battle and ordered his corpse to be beheaded.

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