THE PERSIANS is a definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world’s first superpower.
The Great Kings of Persia ruled over the largest Empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the Steppes of Asia, and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. At the heart of the Empire was the fabled palace-city of Persepolis where the Achaemenid monarchs held court in unparalleled grandeur. From here, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, and their heirs passed laws, raised armies, and governed their multicultural Empire of enormous diversity.
The Achaemenids, however, were one of the great dysfunctional families of history. Brothers fought brothers for power, wives and concubines plotted to promote their sons to the throne, and eunuchs and courtiers vied for influence and prestige.
Our understanding of the Persian Empire has traditionally come from the histories of Greek writers such as Herodotus – and as such, over many centuries, our perspective has been skewed by ancient political and cultural agendas. Professor Llewellyn-Jones, however, calls upon original Achaemenid sources, including inscriptions, art, and recent archaeological discoveries in Iran, to create an authentic ‘Persian Version’ of this remarkable first great empire of antiquity – the Age of the Great Kings.
Ash –
Just finished and could not put it down. Usually books on subjects like this can take me a while but this was so easy to read with so much information. Thank you so much for such a fantastic find. I was scrolling books on Amazon and this one caught my eye and I’m so glad it did. Absolutely meant to find me, I was hooked from the first page! it’s one I will keep on my bookshelf for sure.
Joseph G McGurk –
I am very impressed with this book. It doesn’t take you so far into a rabbit hole you lose the will to live and stays on point. Not written in a highbrow way either, so easy to follow even if you’ve never dabbled in the subject.
Massimiliano –
Amazing actual research-based book. But grammar mistakes and other mistakes are kind of stains on those pages. Hopefully in the future there will be reprints with corrections after a thorough proofreading and it goes without saying that I would buy it again, hardback again.
Adele –
Fantastic read, great observations! I really enjoyed reading this research.
Jiří Mazánek –
I got convinced about validity of the main theory in this book – that the history has been changed using wars, disasters and other means to depopulate entire countries especially belonging to a civilization which had access to free energy and healing modalities based on light, color, sound and crystals. For that purpose the Earth’s Custodians (author calls them Parasites in the book which isn’t precise since they do their role for ET overlords as custodians of this planet) go to great lenghts including creating wars and bombing places which bear architectural signs of the unwanted paradigm. The main theory of the book is concerning architecture eg. cathedrals, churches and star-forts.I believe this theory is absolutely convincing as it is horrifying. We know from other cases in history for example a hidden War in Laos that an army is indeed used to destroy unwanted occurences like something which proves an existence of another civilization.Related theories in this book eg. mudfloods or a change of timeline isn’t really convincing to me as it is poorly substantiated (for examplejust one picture of a mudded building in Kansas really wouldn’t do) neither it does much logical sense.The book is written in layman’s terms which isn’t bad in itself but there are quite a few typos and grammatical errors. It sometimes contains statements which are like ”shouts in the dark” eg.: ”Jesus was a father of Genghis-Khan” or ”Humans were made from Neanderthals by Annunaki” without any further explanation or mentioning a source. That is of course punishable from academical point of view and it just doesn’t help this book at all.Given it’s author’s first book and regarding topic which is groundbreaking I’m willing to accept the imperfections. I’d wish author in the future went deeper into the main theories of his book and provided and extended version containing for example more evidence because it could indeed become a whole new field of knowledge.
Nathalie U –
This book is amazingly interesting, and proves how blind we can all be to lies and manipulations by those who are elected to/supposed to respect our social and political wishes. And those we don’t know much about and seem to control everything. I cannot read a history book the same way after reading this treasure, there are so many things missing… I am shocked at how blind and subservient we are.
benjamin john gerrell –
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and will be following up with some of Guy’s other recommendations.It fascinates me about how much trust we have put into the narrative and without questioning anything.Thank you Guy I am awake.
pee –
The book gives a logical explanation on how real live manipulation by the glo bal elites operate, it tells you in a language that the masses can understand….. the few really awakened amongst the masses will know the true implications of the information written in this condensed all in one play book of the NWO.
Dom –
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Astrid –
Excelente libro!
Excelente libro, una investigación genial con hechos súper interesantes y aleccionadores, me encanta que me haga pensar, me invite a investigar más a fondo. Un libro invaluable!