The Cyrus Cylinder: The Great Persian Edict from Babylon

by Irving Finkel

Some historical artefacts 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 same tradition of game-changing discoveries from antiquity as Hammurabi's famous law code or the intact tomb of the boy-king Tutankhamun. For the Cyrus Cylinder contains in microcosm the whole history...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350297054
• ISBN13: 9781350297050
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 10.0"