Xerxes grand, triumphal parade to conquer Greece took a detour to visit the ruins of Helen’s legendary Troy. How Cyrus the Great conquered the most impregnable city fortress in the world without shedding any blood, while inside the city a ghostly hand was writing a message of doom to the ruler of Babylon. And finally Xerxes arranged to see the might and irresistible power that he had assembled to crush the pesky Greeks. All of this will be covered now.

Tag words: Xerxes; Troy; Helen; Priam; Cyrus the Great; Babylon; Pythias, the Lydian; Herodotus;Magi; Bible; book of Daniel; Euphrates River; Belshazzar; Nabonidus; Belteshazzar; Book of Isaiah;