News On This Day In History: Cyrus The Great And His Army Took Babylon – On Oct 12, 539 BC AncientPages.com | October 12, 2016 AncientPages.com - On October 12, 539 BC, the king of Persia, Cyrus the Great, and his army entered the city of Babylon. It was not, however, an easy task because Babylon's Read More