LSE702647 Cyrus II, King of Persia and Babylon gives permission to all Jews to return to their country (engraving) by .; Private Collection; (add.info.: Cyrus II (King of Persia) byname Cyrus The Great (born 590??"580 bc, Media, or Persia [now in Iran]??"died c. 529, Asia), conqueror who founded the Achaemenian empire, centred on Persia and comprising the Near East from the Aegean Sea eastward to the Indus River. He is remembered as a tolerant and ideal monarch who was called the father of his people by the ancient Persians. In the Bible he is the liberator of the Jews who were captive in Babylonia.); Photo ?? Leonard de Selva.