Iran / Persia: A medieval woodcut illustration showing Queen Tomyris of the Massagetae receiving the severed head of King Cyrus the Great,

A scene from the account of the Greek historian Herodotus, who records that Queen Tomyris of the Massagetae defeated Cyrus the Great in battle and ordered his corpse to be beheaded.

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