When Alexander the Great visited the tomb of Cyrus of Persia, he found it ransacked and ordered that the tomb be restored.

Under Cyrus, the Persian Empire became the hegemonic power in the ... was killed while fighting against the Massagetae, a nomadic people of Central Asia ruled by Queen Tomyris.

In the late 10th century, a nomadic chief named Seljuk broke away from his Khazar overlords in the north of the Caspian Sea. Thus began his tribe’s migration from the lands of modern-day Kazakhstan ...