Cyrus Cylinder, The
The Great Persian Edict from Babylon
Some historical artfacts are destined forever to alter how the ancient world is perceived. The unerathing 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 same traditin of game changing discoveries from antiquity as Hammurabi's famous law code or the intact tom of the boy-king Tutankhamun. For the Cyrus Cylinder contains in microcosm the whole history of its period. Inscribed with an account of the conquest of Babylon in 539 BC by the Persian king, it records an event which launched one of the greatest imperial adventures in history. It describes Cyrus'…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-85773-349-8
- EAN: 9780857733498
- Produktnummer: 22567717
- Verlag: I.B.Tauris
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 9'152 KB
Über den Autor
I L Finkel is Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian Script, Languages and Cultures in the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum. He is co-author (with M J Seymour) of Babylon: Myth and Reality (2008), and editor of Ancient Board Games in Perspective (2007).
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