Please don't make this political, especially since it's about a cool project and not the minutia of the data.

I'm sure you don't want the Iranians claiming ownership of the region due to whatever Cyrus and Darius would have conquered.

Why not? History matters.

	▲	mihaic 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, history matters, but I'll return the burden on you to argue why Israel/Palestine matters specifically in this context. Otherwise, it's irrelevant noise to the topic at hand.