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Winged man relief, Pasargadae, Province of Fars, Iran, believed to be Cyrus the Great: The four winged guardian figure representing Cyrus the Great, a bas-relief found at Pasargadae on top of which was once inscribed in three languages the sentence “I am Cyrus the king, an Achaemenian.”

Cyrus’s tomb lies in Pasargadae, Iran, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

The Cyrus the Great Cylinder is the first charter of right of nations in the world. It is a baked-clay cyliner in Akkadian language with cuneiform script. This cylinder was excavated in 1879 by the Assyro-British archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam in the foundations of the Esagila (the Marduk temple of Babylon) and is kept today in the British Museum in London.

12th October 1971 2500th Ann. of Charter of Cyrus the Great

Cyrus II the Great, king of Persia, allowing the Hebrews in captivity in Babylon to return to their homeland and to rebuild the city of Jerusalem and the temple. By Jean Fouquet c1470-1475 Bibliothèque nationale de France

Cyrus hunting boar, Claude Audran II, Chateau de Versailles exhibition of Diana,

The Childhood of Cyrus, the king of Persia, by Sebastiano Ricci, 1659-1734

‘English: Zerubbabel displays a plan of Jerusalem to Cyrus the Great’; by Jacob van Loo (1640 – 1670)

Replica of the Cyrus Cylinder at United Nations Headquarters, New York, with translations of the text in Persian, English and French. The UN promotes the Cyrus Cylinder as “an ancient declaration of human rights”.[85]

Alexander at the Tomb of Cyrus the Great, 1796 / Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes French, 1750-1819

Gold griffin-headed armlet from the Oxus treasure, Achaemenid Persian, 5th-4th century BC. This bracelet is the inspiration behind the bracelet referred to in the novel, I am Cyrus

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