Dec 7

The day when Kourosh the Great made his will to bury him in Pasargadae (Persia)

This piece of history will be completely edited later           On 7 December 539 BC, Kourosh the Great, the founder of Iran, while visiting the main temple of Babylon city and paying his respect, faced his accompanying officials and announced that whenever he dies his body should be transferred to Pasargadae and buried there. This statement of Kourosh has been recorded in history as his will. Though Zoroastrian, Kourosh respected other religions and their followers.     That same day he appointed Zrubabylon as leader of 40,000 Jews whom he had freed to return to Jerusalem and sent enough soldiers as guards and money to restore Jerusalem and the destroyed temples of the Jews.     Many of these Jews were captive in the hands of Babylonia rulers since the past 50 years. The liberated Jews reached their land in 538 BC. On 29 October 539 BC Kourosh announced that his mission for liberating west Asia and joining it to the common wealth countries was ended and he should be in Persia for Nowrooz. After conquering Babylonia Kourosh ordered to renovate Seda port (in the present day Lebanon) which had been destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, at Iran’s expense.          Translation by Rowshan Lohrasbpour (AmordadNews writer)