Biblical places
Ecbatana
Achmetha (Ezra 6:2) was the royal city of the Medes and Persians, where the archive holding Cyrus's decree was kept. The site of modern-day Hamadan, Iran.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Hamadan
- 34.8064, 48.5161
Both Wikidata (linked to Pleiades 903021) and the Encyclopaedia Iranica agree on Hamadan.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Ezra 6:2
And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written: