The Cyrus Cylinder, an ancient artifact dating back to the 6th century BCE, has long been hailed as a symbol of tolerance, religious freedom, and the intersection of cultures. This inscribed clay ...

Buried beneath the ruins of Babylon, a cuneiform cylinder unearthed in 1879 would transform how historians understood Cyrus ...

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 ...

Cast of the Cyrus Cylinder with its presentation/storage box. The original Cyrus Cylinder or Cyrus Charter is a fired clay cylinder, now broken into several pieces, on which is written a declaration ...

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, ...

Just last week, after Egypt threatened to cut ties with the Louvre, the French Commission returned painted wall fragments to the Middle Eastern country. Now, Iran has promised to cease all mutual ...

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 ...