The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several pieces, on which is written an Achaemenid royal inscription in Akkadian cuneiform...
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Cyrus II of Persia (Old Persian: 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 Kūruš; c. 600–530 BC), commonly known as Cyrus the Great was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Hailing...
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Cyrus the Great was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire and king of Persia from 559 to 530 BC. He is venerated in the Tanakh as Cyrus the Messiah for...
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Cyaxares II (section The Cyrus Cylinder)
and he was also the brother of Mandane, Cyrus the Great's mother (1.2.1, 1.4.7). He describes the Persian, Cyrus II/The Great, as leading the campaign to...
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Fall of Babylon (category Battles of Cyrus the Great)
incorporated into the Persian empire as a satrapy. As recorded in the Cyrus Cylinder, Cyrus vowed to respect the Babylonian people. He also allowed exiled peoples...
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The Edict of Cyrus usually refers to the biblical account of a proclamation by Cyrus the Great, the founding king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, in...
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Return to Zion (category Cyrus the Great)
Persian conquest of Babylon. In 539 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus the Great issued the Edict of Cyrus allowing the Jews to return to Jerusalem and the Land...
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titles assumed by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire after his conquest of Babylon in 539 BC. In the text of the Cyrus Cylinder, Cyrus assumes several...
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Achaemenid Empire (redirect from Cyrus (I))
According to the Cyrus Cylinder (the oldest extant genealogy of the Achaemenids) the kings of Anshan were Teispes, Cyrus I, Cambyses I and Cyrus II, also known...
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Ezra 1 (section Cyrus Cylinder)
identical to the final sentence of 2 Chronicles. The Cyrus Cylinder contains a statement related to the Cyrus's edict which gives the historical background to...
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Dhu al-Qarnayn (redirect from Theories about Cyrus the Great in the Quran)
commentaries identifying Dhu al-Qarnayn as Cyrus. Archeological evidence cited includes the Cyrus Cylinder, which portrays Cyrus as a worshipper of the Babylonian...
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The Tomb of Cyrus the Great (Persian: آرامگاه کوروش بزرگ, Ârâmgâh-e Kuroš-e Bozorg) is the final resting place of Cyrus the Great, the founder of the...
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King of Sumer and Akkad (category Cyrus the Great)
part of his conquest, Cyrus created a foundation deposit to be buried in the walls of Babylon, now known as the Cyrus Cylinder, with text written in Akkadian...
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"King of Sumer and Akkad" was Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire, who reigned from 559 to 530 BC. In the Cyrus Cylinder, written in Akkadian cuneiform...
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In it was displayed the Cyrus Cylinder, which the Shah promoted as "the first human rights charter in history". The cylinder was also the official symbol...
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King of the Four Corners (category Cyrus the Great)
the Persian king Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, in 539 BC. The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder written in Akkadian...
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Bible, Cyrus later issued a decree permitting captive people, including the Jews, to return to their own lands. The text found on the Cyrus Cylinder has...
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eponymous ancestor and founder, the dynasty furthermore included Cyrus I, Cambyses I, Cyrus II, Cambyses II and Bardiya. Anshan was part of the Elamite Kingdom...
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broke out with the Persian king Cyrus the Great, who is mentioned as an instrument of the gods. The Nabonidus Cylinder from Sippar contains echoes from...
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conquering Babylon. Cyrus does much the same in the Cyrus Cylinder, stressing that his father and grandfather were "kings of Anšan" and that Cyrus was the "heir...
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non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The earliest known form of...
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Battle of Opis (category Battles of Cyrus the Great)
the few documents to have survived from Cyrus's lifetime, the Cyrus Cylinder. Further information on Cyrus's campaign is provided by the later ancient...
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6th century BC under Cyrus the Great. After his conquest of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 539 BC, the king issued the Cyrus cylinder, discovered in 1879...
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implemented Iranian nationalist policies establishing Cyrus the Great, the Cyrus Cylinder, and the Tomb of Cyrus the Great as popular symbols of Iran. The Shah...
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latter's seizure of the throne. Cyrus II does not mention Achaemenes at all in the detailed genealogy given in the Cyrus cylinder. While the patronym haxāmanišiya—"of...
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was occupied by a copy of the Cyrus Cylinder, the original being kept at the British Museum. Next, to the Cyrus Cylinder, there was a gold plaque commemorating...
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Look up Cyrus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cyrus is a masculine given name. Cyrus may also refer to: Cyrus (2010 film) Cyrus: Mind of a Serial...
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undertaking that the Cyrus Cylinder would be loaned to the National Museum of Iran in return. The planned loan of the Cylinder was postponed to October...
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an ancestor of Cyrus the Great. There is evidence that Cyrus I and Ariaramnes were both his sons. Cyrus I is the grandfather of Cyrus the Great, whereas...
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inspired by the 2,500 year old Cyrus Cylinder considered by some to have been an early written declaration of human rights by Cyrus the Great, King of ancient...
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