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Cyrus had it buried in the foundations of a wall at Babylon around 539 BC, and it was dug up there in 1879; one further piece turned up in a Yale collection and was joined to it nearly a century later. The text is a Babylonian foundation inscription of an entirely standard kind, and in it Cyrus records sending deported peoples home and restoring their sanctuaries. Calling it the first charter of human rights is a twentieth-century idea, promoted from 1971, and the British Museum, which holds the cylinder, says plainly that it is not one. What it is instead is an early piece of statecraft for an empire of many peoples and many gods — which is the more interesting claim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGallery walls of archaeological drawings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorians, lawyers and archaeologists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA study or office in black and white\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGraduation and milestone gifts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Rey Studios","offers":[{"title":"7x5\" \/ Unframed Print","offer_id":52584970256674,"sku":"REY-CYRCYL-7X5-UF","price":32.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"7x5\" \/ Framed - Brown","offer_id":52584970289442,"sku":"REY-CYRCYL-7X5-FDW","price":79.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"7x5\" \/ Framed - Light","offer_id":52584970322210,"sku":"REY-CYRCYL-7X5-FLW","price":79.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"7x5\" \/ Framed - 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