Talk:Cyrus Cylinder/Cyrus cylinder
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The Cyrus Cylinder, also known as the ‘Cyrus the Great Cylinder’, is an artifact of the Persian Empire, consisting of a declaration issued by the emperor Cyrus the Great inscribed in Babylonian (Akkadian) cuneiform on a clay cylinder. It was discovered in 1878 in the excavation of a Babylonian site by Assyro-British archaeologist Hormuz Rassam [citation needed].
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