sentences:  An early description of Media from the end of the 9th century BC to the beginning of the 7th century BC comes from the Assyrians.The southern border of Media, in that period, is named as the Elamite region of Simaški in present-day Lorestan Province.To the west and northwest, Media was bounded by the Zagros Mountains and from the east by the Dasht-e Kavir desert.