TEHRAN - UNESCO’s General Conference on Thursday adopted a resolution recognizing the Cyrus Cylinder as one of the world’s ...

When Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon in 539 B.C., he encountered the same problem many political leaders face today: How do rulers keep the peace? Cyrus, the King of Persia, was in the midst of ...

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 ...

On August 9th, Asia Society Northern California and the Asian Art Museum welcomed the Cyrus Cylinder to San Francisco as part of a major new exhibition on Ancient Persia. The highlight of the day was ...

KPCC's Kevin Ferguson went to the Getty Villa in Malibu, where the ancient Cyrus Cylinder is on display now through December. Thousands of years ago in ancient Persia, King Cyrus the Great conquered ...

TEHRAN – Iran and Tajikistan have jointly submitted a draft resolution to the 43rd session of UNESCO’s General Conference ...

WASHINGTON -- For 2,600 years, the weighty praise of world leaders has been heaped upon the fragile clay of the Cyrus Cylinder. The diminutive object, now cracked and missing one-third of its original ...

Can an ancient hunk of clay bearing a message of tolerance from the Persian Empire help Americans and Iranians chip away at a generation of mutual hostility? The Cyrus Cylinder arrives in the United ...

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 ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Cyrus Cylinder of ancient Persia, a landmark in religious freedom and a potent symbol of Iranian national identity, will begin its first U.S. tour with an exhibit that opens ...

NO LARGER than a rugby ball, its brittle clay cracked and broken in places, the Cyrus cylinder may seem unimpressive at first glance. The barrel-shaped object, covered in cuneiform Akkadian script ...