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Explore the rise and fall of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, from the reign of Cyrus the Great to the conquests of Alexander the Great. Learn about the empire's religious and legal systems, military expansion, and cultural achievements.
The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several fragments, on which is written a declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great. It dates from the 6th century BC and was discovered in the ruins of Babylon in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) in 1879.