Question
Explain about The Cyrus Cylinder’.

Answer

  • Cyrus the Great, the first king of ancient Persia, free the slaves and declared that all people had the right to choose their own religion and established racial equality.
  • These and other decrees were recorded on a baked clay cylinder in the Akkadian language in cuneiform script
  • It is translated into all six official languages of the United Nations and its provisions parallel the first four Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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