Cyrus cylinder

10. THE CYRUS CYLINDER Date of Artifact: 6th century BCE Location of Creation: Persia Date of Finding: 1879 Location Found: Iraq Biblical passages related: Isaiah 44:28 | Ezra 1:1-4 | 2 Chronicles | 36:22-23 | Ezra 6:4-5 | Daniel 10:1 | Daniel 6:28 The Cyrus Cylinder dates from the

Cyrus the great cylinder, world first human right declaration. Persian king 🤴

Full: Front The Cyrus cylinder; clay cylinder; a Babylonian account of the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus in 539 BC, of his restoration to various temples of statues removed by Nabonidus, the previous king of Babylon, and of his own work at Babylon.

The Cyrus Cylinder is a document issued by Cyrus the Great, consisting of a cylinder of clay inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform script. The cylinder was created in 539 BCE, surely by order of Cyrus the...

The Cyrus Cylinder or Cyrus Charter is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several pieces, on which is written a declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of Persia's Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great. The text on the Cylinder praises Cyrus, sets out his genealogy and portrays him as a king from a line of kings. The Babylonian king Nabonidus, who was defeated and deposed by Cyrus, is denounced as an impious oppressor of the people of Babylonia and his low-born origins are…

When Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 B.C., he proclaimed his principles on what has come to be known as the Cyrus Cylinder. It has since come to be considered a first step to a declaration of human rights. By Richard Holledge.

The Persian Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great, is the largest and most powerful government in history, where people enjoyed the highest level of human freedom.

The Cyrus Cilinder: placed by Cyrus the Great (559-530 BC) in the foundations of the Marduk-temple in Babylon, after the Persian conquest of 539 BC (British Museum, London)

The rugby ball-sized clay cylinder is arguably the earliest articulation of human rights