The Immortals

[Paralus]

with some fantastic addition such as the ox-drawn towers

So why should this a "fantastic", Cyrus had already a large empire and logistic/organization structure when these towers appeared.

And all done with a few nomadic herders. A triumph of logistics indeed.

Right, all facetiousness aside, let’s get to other matters. You’ll need to excuse me if this runs on: a parish function and a bottle of red over the organising of Osso Bucco in the slow cooker (the red must be drinkable else one cannot eat it).

The Babylonian Chronicles attest to major conflict involving the Medes, the Persians and, eventually of course, themselves. That the Medes ever thought it nice that Cyrus rule over them as he was the bastard son of a Persian/Mede marriage is really not the point, nor is it likely. Indeed, it would depend entirely on whose testimony you would take as to which “Moses in a reed floatâ€