The Cyrus Cylinder is often considered the first charter of human rights, inscribed with the words of King Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire.

The Cyrus Cylinder is put on display at the National Museum of Iran in Tehran on September 12, 2010. Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images The cylinder also confirmed existing impressions of Cyrus.

The Cyrus Cylinder, one of the most significant archaeological artifacts in history, travels here from the British Museum and makes its United States debut on Saturday, March 9, 2013, at the ...

The Cyrus Cylinder, an object from the ancient world that was never intended to be seen at all, will have an entire exhibition devoted to it at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. "It's a very ...

As the Cyrus Cylinder begins its US tour, BBC Persian's Khashayar Joneidi explores how the reputedly liberal monarch who gave his name to the ancient Persian artefact inspired US founding father ...

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of ...

Cyrus proclaimed himself ‘king of the four corners of the world’ in the famous Cyrus Cylinder, one of the most admired objects in the British Museum.

One can even find a Cyrus Cylinder in New York. There, a copy of it lives at the United Nations headquarters. A gift to the U.N. in 1971, it stands as a monument to human rights: the right to ...

The Cyrus Cylinder, an inscribed clay drum, dates from 539 BC and has been described as the “first charter of human rights”. It records Cyrus the Great’s order for the humane treatment of ...

The Cyrus Cylinder is put on display at the National Museum of Iran in Tehran on September 12, 2010. Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images The cylinder also confirmed existing impressions of Cyrus.