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| Description | Cyrus Cylinder (Persian: منشور کوروش) is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several fragments, on which is written a declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of the Persia's Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great. It dates from the 6th century BC and was discovered in the ruins of Babylon in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) in 1879. |
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| Author | Blondinrikard Fröberg from Sweden |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by blondinrikard at https://flickr.com/photos/44093058@N06/14368309573. It was reviewed on 10 March 2016 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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