The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia Charting a New Empire June 20–August 4, 2013 at the MET in New York The Cyrus Cylinder from Ancient Babylon and the Beginning of the Persian Empire The Cyrus Cylinder. Baked clay. Achaemenid, 539–538 B.C. Excavated in Babylon, Iraq, in 1879. British Museum 90920. © Trustees of the British Museum The exhibition is made possible by the NoRuz at the Met Fund. This...



