I returned to these sacred cities on the other side of the Tigris, the sanctuaries of which have been in ruins for a long time, the images which used to live therein and established for them permanent sanctuaries.
— Cyrus the Great Ancient

Founder of the Achaemenid Empire

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Cyrus Cylinder

Date / Period

539 BCE

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Strange & Unusual

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