The Cyrus Cylinder: The King of Persia's Proclamation from Ancient Babylon by Irving Finkel

The Cyrus Cylinder: The King of Persia's Proclamation from Ancient Babylon

Irving Finkel

160 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Some historical artifacts are destined forever to alter how the ancient world is perceived. The unearthing in today's Iraq (in 1879) of a clay cylinder-shaped decree from Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, stands in the ...

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