TOMYRIS
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Cyrus chose war. But Tomyris and the Massagetai, won and Cyrus was killed in the battle. The famous painter, Rubens, painted the scene of the head of Cyrus being brought to Queen Tomyris.
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Tomyris (/ˈtɒmɪrɪs/; from Eastern Iranian: Tahm-Rayiš "Brave"; or Scythian: *Tᵃumurī̆ or *Θᵃumurī̆.) also called Thomyris, Tomris, Tomiride, or Queen Tomiri, reigned over the Massagetae, an Iranian people from Scythian pastoral-nomadic confederation of Central Asia east of the Caspian Sea, in parts of modern-day Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, western Uzbekistan, and southern Kazakhstan. Tomyris led her armies to defend against an attack by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire, and, according to Herodotus, defeated and killed him in 530 BC.
