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Cyrus The Great

  Cyrus Charter of Human Rights CylinderFirst Charter of Human Rights The charter of Cyrus the Great, a baked-clay Aryan language (Old Persian) cuneiform cylinder, was discovered in 1878 in excavation of the site of Babylon. In it, Cyrus the Great described his human treatment of the inhabitants of Babylonia after its conquest by the […]