Ironically, Iran, which is today criticised for silencing critics and punishing protesters, gave the world its human rights charter. Cyrus the Great, the first king of ancient Persia, issued decrees ...

Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's regime is facing scrutiny for widespread human rights violations amid weeks-long protests. Thousands have been killed and tens of thousands have been jailed. But it is ...

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 ...

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 ...