# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tomyris
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:33:27.581Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tomyris"
name: "Tomyris"
slug: "tomyris"
description: "A 6th-century BC queen who beheaded an empire. Tomyris led the Massagetae against Cyrus the Great's invasion, killed him in battle, and — by one account — dropped his severed head into a skin of blood. Renaissance Europe couldn't look away."
tagline: "Queen of the Massagetae (fl. 6. century BCE)"
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gender: "female"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "-600"
deathDate: "-600"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     10
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - name: "Politics"
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  - name: "Ancient History"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Tomyris ruled the Massagetae, a nomadic people, when Cyrus the Great of Persia pushed into her territory in 530 BC. Herodotus is the lone ancient source: he writes that she commanded her forces in defense, routed the Achaemenid army, and left Cyrus dead on the field. One version of the story has her mutilating his corpse, a gesture of contempt that became her signature in later retellings. By the Renaissance she'd become a fixture of the "Power of Women" genre — painters returned again and again to the image of a queen standing over the severed head of the man who thought he could take her land. She exists entirely within Herodotus; other historians of the period don't mention her at all.