The Ancient Queen

The epic war between the Queen of nomads and the King of Persia

By: Dana White

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. The Untold War of the Queen Who Defied the Persian Empire.

Before Cleopatra, before Alexander—there was Tomyris, the warrior queen who dared to defy the mightiest empire on Earth. She killed the man who thought he was a god.

When Cyrus the Great—conqueror of Babylon, King of Kings, and builder of the Persian Empire—marched on her people, Tomyris had two choices: submit or fight. She chose war.
What followed was one of the bloodiest, most shocking battles in history—a queen’s vengeance written in rivers of blood.

This novel rips away the dusty pages of history and throws you into a world of power, betrayal, and vengeance:

• A Queen with nothing left to lose, commanding warriors who answer only to her.

• A King who believed destiny itself bent to his will.

• A war so brutal it changed the fate of nations.

Forget what you think you know about ancient history. This is Game of Thrones-level intrigue backed by real events. Passion, bloodshed, and the raw will to survive collide in a story that answers one burning question:

If you love fierce heroines, legendary battles, and a story too wild to be fiction—this is your next obsession.
Step into history’s most epic duel and witness the moment one queen stood against an empire and won.

Tomyris vs Cyrus

Historically inaccurate but passable

I wish the author had done proper research as parts of the story were blatantly inaccurate. This is a historical novel so it has to reflect facts while having fictional characters immersed in the created narrative. Things like Saka could fire and arrow in all directions while Persian archers only in front of them is ludicrous! Dozens of sources including the Greek authors have recounted the Persian archers mastery during centuries and as a matter of fact Romans learned the use of archers shooting arrows backwards while riding from the encounters with Persian armies (parthians in that time). Saying that an expert archer can only shoot arrows forward is not just inaccurate but blatantly demeaning and false. Also out of 4 Greek historians 2 of them have described Cyrus death in his capital city one after being wounded the other just a natural death, and the body of Cyrus is buried in pasargatae, hard to imagine if Cyrus was beheaded his armies could have recovered his body from the Sakas and taken him over 1000 miles to his thomb. Also Darius the great inscriptions in behistun mountain face describes Sakas as vassal estates, as cambysis (Cyrus successor) never ventured into those lands therefore Cyrus must have conquered those lands rather than being beheaded by them. Additionally the most iconic move after Cyrus conquered babilonia was the liberation of Jews promised on the Old Testament and an extremely significant historic event, absolutely no word of it when author describes the aftermath of babilonia’s take over. A biased, historically inaccurate novel.