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The Medes were an Iron Age tribe of the Persian civilization, ruling western Iran from the mid-7th century BC until 550 BC, when Cyrus the Great defeated them, establishing the Achaemenid Dynasty.
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Mesopotamian Archaeology
Archaeological sites and studies of the ancient civilization of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers of the middle east.
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