It's just a broken, barrel-shaped hunk of light-brown clay that's smaller than a football; one could easily mistake the lines etched into it for a basket-weave pattern. But those lines are cuneiform, ...

“We should wait patiently for in-depth studies by experts on ancient languages and other laboratory research to confirm the genuineness of the objects,” Kamyar Abdi told the Persian service of CHN on ...

The cyrus cylinder is, at first glance, an unremarkable chunk of clay, the size of a rugby ball. And yet it is one of Iran’s most treasured antiquities. The cuneiform script that covers its surface ...

The Cyrus Cylinder was discovered at Babylon in 1879. Scholars soon realized its inscription corroborated with the biblical account of how the Jews brought to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar were ...

Born in 1939 in Bandar Abbas in southern Iran, Arfa’i was regarded as one of the country’s foremost experts on Elamite and Akkadian languages and one of the last surviving specialists worldwide ...

Modest in scale yet monumental in meaning, the Cyrus Cylinder-a small baked clay artifact from the sixth century BCE-is widely regarded as one of the most important objects in world history. Buried as ...

The Cyrus Cylinder — one of the most famous objects to have survived from the ancient world — comes to the MFAH on a limited U.S. tour. A touchstone of civilization, the Cyrus Cylinder is truly an ...