After conquering Babylon in 539 BCE, Cyrus issued a decree that allowed displaced peoples, including the Jewish exiles, to return to their homelands and rebuild their sacred temples.

The Cyrus Cylinder was discovered at Babylon in 1879. Scholars soon realized its inscription corroborated with the biblical account of how the Jews brought to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar were ...

Cast of the Cyrus Cylinder with its presentation/storage box. The original Cyrus Cylinder or Cyrus Charter is a fired clay cylinder, now broken into several pieces, on which is written a declaration ...