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	Cyrus the Great Became Top Leader Of His Era By Championing Just Rule, Cyrus Cylinder of Charter of the Righs of ...
		Cyrus was born to nobility in a small highland tribe, the Achaemenians, in central Persia.
		Cyrus' first military conquest was of Media in 550 B.C. One of his first acts was to do away with the draconian tradition that would have had him raze the city and murder its citizens enmasse.
		Cyrus always took pains to convey that he was not a foreign king and conqueror, but a liberator and, therefore, a legitimate holder of the crown.
	www.farsinet.com /cyrus/cyrus_just_ruler.html (918 words)

	Histroy of Iran
		But Cyrus followed him, and in an historic battle in 546 BC on the open plains of Hermus defeated the Lydians using the now famous ruse of covering the front of his army with camels, the smell of which terrified Crosus' cavalry and made them unusable.
		Cyrus, however, legitimized his succession as king by 'taking the hand of the god Bel' and his persuasive propaganda convinced the Babylonians that Marmuk, their supreme deity, had directed his steps towards the city.
		Cyrus' body was brought back to Pasargade; his tomb, which still exists, consists of a single chamber built on a foundation course of six steps.
	www.farhangsara.com /cyrus.htm (2453 words)

	Iranian Web Site Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		On this historical turning point, by order of Cyrus, all the captive nationalities held as slaves for generations in Babylon were freed and the return to their homeland was financed.
		Other references to Cyrus are attested in Isaiah 45:4 where Cyrus is called by name and given a title of honor; he is also called to rebuild the God's city and free His people (Is. 45:13) and is chosen, called and brought successful by God (Is. 48:14-15).
		After Cyrus, his son Cambyses ruled for eight years (530BC to 522 BC) and captured Egypt, and as a sign of respect toward their culture and religion, he prostrated himself before the goddess, Meith and paid homage to Apis, the Egyptian totem (Bull).
	www.iranian.ws /cyrus.htm (1211 words)

	Passargadae, PalaceP 01
		Cyrus as a Zoroastrian emperor was mentioned by the ancient historian Herodotus for his kindness equally toward friends and defeated enemies.
		Cyrus was the son of Cambysis, ruler of the small kingdom of Persia and Mandanes, the daughter of Astyages, the last Median king.
		Cyrus was killed at the age of seventy during a war near Oxus river in north eastern frontier of his empire.
	www.vohuman.org /SlideShow/Pasargadae/Passargadae,General.htm (973 words)

	Cyrus - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Later on, in consequence of his imperious acts, Cyrus was recognized by Astyages, who came to learn the whole story, and spared him because, having once been made king by his companions in play, the Magians held the predictions concerning his ultimate royal state to have been fulfilled.
		Cyrus now took refuge in his mountain home, but the taunts of the women sent him and his helpers forth again, this time to victory and dominion.
		The glory of Cyrus' conquests probably appealed to the Babylonians, for Cyrus next states that Merodach placed the whole of the troops of Qutu (Media) under his feet, and the whole of the troops of the Manda (barbarians and mercenaries).
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T2485 (2936 words)

	Cyrus Cylinder won’t Re-visit Iran by 2007
		The so-called Cyrus Cylinder, widely-believed to be the first manifest of human rights written over 2,000 years ago, by the founder of the Achaemenid dynasty, is unlikely to be lent by the British Museum to Iran by 2007, a source told CHN.
		He describes on the cylinder measures of relief for the inhabitants of Babylon and the return to their homelands of people held by the former kings, thought to have included the Jews.
		The cylinder, which would have been used as a foundation stone to a building, was found in Babylon, in modern Iraq, by a British Museum dig in the 19th century.
	www.payvand.com /news/04/sep/1176.html (450 words)

	Cyrus - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cyrus seems to have united Persia and Media in a personal union; it was, therefore, a dual monarchy.
		In 547, Cyrus added Lydia to his possessions, a state that had among its vassals the Greek and Carian towns in the west and southwest of what is now Turkey.
		Cyrus was buried near Pasargadae, in a small building containing a gold sarcophagus, his arms, his jewellery and a cloak.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Cyrus (1148 words)

	Facts of History About Zoroastrianism
		Cyrus was a warrior, but also a statesman, a diplomat, who knew that he could never hold together his subjects from different lands with different cultures, and religious beliefs, unless he respected what was dear to them, such as their gods.
		This was not the language of the Aechemenian court, and was not the language of Cyrus, who hailed from Anshan.
		It is not much different from his treatment in Isaiah, where Cyrus is described as the anointed one of the Jewish God, and indeed the Messiah.
	www.zarathushtra.com /z/discussion2/_disc1/0000003a.htm (557 words)

	Cyrus The Great
		Cyrus was the first Archaemenian Emperor through the unification of the two original Iranian Tribes of Mede and Persian.
		Cyrus was protected by a shepherd and was eventually restored to his parents.
		Cyrus the Great was titled "Great" not only because of the victories on the battlefield, but also those that exceeded to conquer the people through his mercifulness and benevolence.
	www.loyno.edu /~lynguyen/cyrus.htm (1113 words)

	Bible History Online - Cyrus Cylinder (Biblical Archaeology)
		The Cyrus Cylinder is an important discovery in the study of Biblical Archaeology because it speaks of Cyrus the Persian and his conquest of Babylon in 539 BC.
		Cyrus was a generous ruler allowing various captives to return to their homelands, as recorded on the Cyrus Cylinder.
		Cyrus also restored the vessels of the House of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar II had taken to Babylon, and provided the funds to bring cedar trees from Lebanon.
	www.bible-history.com /archaeology/persia/cyrus-cylinder.html (497 words)

	Cyrus
		Cyrus is to subdue nations, meaning that Isaiah foresees a day when the Persian Empire, under Cyrus, will conquer the Babylonian Empire and the many nations which made it up.
		Cyrus began a policy of restoring the Jews to their original homeland (and other nations to theirs as well).
		Cyrus issued his decree and built the governmental framework under which his successors would continue his policies (the rebuilding progress would take several generations).
	expositoryfiles.homestead.com /Cyrus.html (1191 words)

	The Loss of an Empire by Tim Case
		Before Cyrus' conquest of Babylon, he was the lord and master of the regions of modern Turkey, Iran and possibly Afghanistan.
		Cyrus had established what historians know as the Achaemenid Empire, an empire that was to last for more than two centuries and was only dissolved after the death of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great when it was divided among Alexander's successors.
		As the abhorrence for the father/son monarchy expanded it caused the invasion of Babylonia by Cyrus II to be facilitated by the existence of a number of disaffected parties within the state.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig6/case7.html (1282 words)

	FORGOTTEN EMPIRE the world of Ancient Persia \| Destruction & Legacy \| Cyrus Cylinder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous objects relating to ancient Persia and has become an icon in modern-day Iran.
		Cyrus claims that he has restored temples and cults in neighbouring countries and has returned their deported people and gods.
		Therefore this object is often linked to Cyrus' permission for the exiled Jews at Babylon to return to Jerusalem, as related in the Bible in the Book of Ezra.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /forgottenempire/legacy/cylinder.html (278 words)

	[FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great :: View topic - Cyrus the Great Summary (590 BC-529 BC)
		Cyrus, being a boy fond of what was fine and honorable, was pleased with the robe, and extremely delighted at learning to ride; for, amongst the Persians, from its being difficult to breed horses,and difficult even to ride in a country so mountainous, it is a rare thing to see a horse.
		Cyrus had two sons: Cambyses and Smerdis, as well as several daughters, of whom Atossa is significant, as she later married Darius the Great and was mother of Xerxes I of Persia.
		Although the cylinder reflects a long tradition in Mesopotamia where, from as early as the third millennium BC, kings such as Urukagina began their reigns with declarations of reforms, the cylinder of Cyrus is widely referred to as the "first charter of human rights".
	activistchat.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=169 (8590 words)

	Clay Cylinder, Constitution, Human Rights, cylinder
		Cyrus cylinder is story of historic achievement of King of King with the aid of Marduk, the principal god of the city of
		Cyrus The Great presented himself not as a conqueror, but a liberator and the legitimate successor to the crown.
		Cyrus had no thought of forcing conquered people into a single mould, and had the wisdom to leave unchanged the institution of each kingdom he attached to the Persian Crown.
	www.peymanmeli.org /constitution/logo.asp (2250 words)

	Biblical people: Cyrus
		Cyrus was a King of Persia, founder of the Achaemenian dynasty and the Persian Empire, he reigned 559-529 BC.
		In 2 Chronicles 36:22-23 God stirs up Cyrus to make this proclamation throughout his kingdom: "all the Kingdoms of the earth have been given to me by the Lord God of heaven, and He instructed me to build Him a Temple in Jerusalem, in the land of Judah.
		Note: A clay cylinder was found in Babylon called the "Cyrus Cylinder." It is full of inscriptions giving record of Cyrus' capture of Babylon, and tells how the captives of Babylon were returned to their homelands.
	www.aboutbibleprophecy.com /p159.htm (298 words)

	My Weekly Column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This is a clay cylinder which contains the written account of King Cyrus, founder of the Persian Empire, telling of his victory over Babylon and thereby bringing an end to the Babylonian Empire.
		However, when Cyrus ended the Babylonia Empire in 539 B.C., he showed an uncustomary kindness for the rulers of his day and allowed various exiled peoples, including the Jews, to return home and rebuild their religious sanctuaries.
		The translation reveals that Cyrus speaks of the god he worships (Marduk) as if he were a real person when he states, "Marduk, the great lord, a protector of his people/worshipers, beheld with pleasure his (i.e.
	www.biblehistory.com /129.htm (479 words)

	Cyrus The Great - Home
		Cyrus was the greatest Persian Emperor and a righteous human being.
		Comparing Cyrus' manner with Semi's rulers, one feels great pleasure for the Persian liberality and generosity and truly regards the Persian as the instructor of human race.
		According to the historian Herodotus (i.46), Cyrus was the son of Cambyses I. He came to the Persian throne in 559 B.C. Nine years later he conquered the Medes, thus unifying the kingdoms of the Medes and the Persians.
	www.cyrusgreat.com (283 words)

	Cyrus Cylinder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This clay cylinder is inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform with an account by Cyrus, king of Persia (559-530 BC) of his conquest of Babylon in 539 BC and capture of Nabonidus, the last Babylonian king.
		Cyrus claims to have achieved this with the aid of Marduk, the god of Babylon.
		This cylinder has sometimes been described as the 'first charter of human rights', but it in fact reflects a long tradition in Mesopotamia where, from as early as the third millennium BC, kings began their reigns with declarations of reforms.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ4931 (261 words)

	Cyrus the Greats' Cylinder; -- The Charter of Human Rights (CAIS)
		The cylinder of Cyrus the Great was discovered in 1878 by the Assyrian archaeologist Hormuz Rassam in his excavations at the site of Babylon.
		Cyrus Cylinder depicted on a postage stamps issued on 12 October 1971 to celebrate the 2,500-year anniversary of the Imperial Regime in Iran
		Cyrus seems to have had no idea of forcing his new subjects into a single Persian identity, and had the wisdom to leave intact the functioning institutions of each kingdom he attached to the Imperial Crown.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/History/hakhamaneshian/Cyrus-the-great/cyrus_cylinder.htm (772 words)

	Persian Empire, Persopolis - Crystalinks
		Cyrus rallied the Persians together, and in 550 BC defeated the forces of Astyages, who was then captured by his own nobles and turned over to the triumphant Cyrus, now Shah of the Persian kingdom.
		Cyrus was killed during a battle against the Massagetae or Sakas.
		When Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 BC he was employed in leading religious ceremonies (Chronicle of Nabonidus), and in the cylinder which contains Cyrus's proclamation to the Babylonians his name is joined to that of his father in the prayers to Marduk.
	www.crystalinks.com /persia.html (2708 words)

	The Genealogy of the Persian Kings
		This TEISPES is to be identified with TEISPES the son of ARCHAEMENES in the Behistun Rock genealogy of DARIUS HYSTASPIS.
		Here wa have the statement of Cyrus that his father was known as CAMBYSES, his grandfather as CYRUS, and his great-grandfather under the name (or title), common to the Behistun Inscription and the Cylinder alike, of TEISPES.
		Moreover, if the TEISPES of the Behistun Inscription and the one of the Cylinder of Cyrus are to be identified with the PHRAORTES (II) of Herodotus (I. 73), then the grandson of this PHRAORTES (II) must be ASTYAGES.
	www.angelfire.com /nv/TheOliveBranch/append57.html (1369 words)

	Cylinder - Cylinder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The radius R, or the distance from the center of a cylinder to its edge, and its length, L are usually the defining property of a cylinder.
		This equation is for an elliptic cylinder, a generalization of the ordinary, The cylinder is a degenerate quadric because at least one of the
		Cylinders must be kept away from electrical wiring where the cylinder could become part of the Use a cylinder cart and secure cylinders with a chain.
	surfform.com /?q=cylinder (420 words)

	declaration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This document was part of the doctrine which Cyrus sought to put into practice with a view to bringing peace to mankind.
		The Cylinder is housed at the British Museum.
		At my deeds Marduk, the great Lord, rejoiced, and to me, Cyrus, the king who worshipped, and to Cambyses, my son, the offspring of my loins, and to all my troops, he graciously gave his blessing, and in good spirit is before him we/glorified/exceedingly his high divinity.
	oznet.net /cyrus/declarat.htm (428 words)

	The Cyrus Cylinder
		are mentioned), the Cyrus Cylinder remains an interesting document, because it shows that the common elements of Babylonian royal propaganda were also used by the Persian conqueror: for example the restoration of the temples, good care for the gods, and a lengthy titulary (cf.
		the Nabonidus Cylinder from Sippar for a parallel).
		The cylinder played an important role in the imperial propaganda of Shah Mohammad Reza Palavi, who in 1971 used it as symbol of the celebration of what he called the 2,500th anniversary of the Persian monarchy.
	www.livius.org /ct-cz/cyrus_I/cyrus_cylinder.html (599 words)

	CYRUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cyrus II The Great was the son of Cambyses I, King of Anshan, and Mandane, a daughter of the King of Media.
		On entering Babylon Cyrus proved to be a merciful conqueror allowing enslaved peoples to return to their own lands.
		In the autumn of 530 BC Cyrus died in battle.
	www.lulu.com /items/volume_1/75000/75606/1/preview/cyrus.htm (493 words)

	Untitled
		The decree issued by Cyrus that allowed the Israelites to return to their homeland has never been found, but archaeological remains of a similar decree - issued to the Babylonians - shows that it is likely that the decree referred to in the bible did exist.
		While the God referred to on the Cyrus' cylinder is Marduk, the God of the city of Babylon, and not the God of the Israelites, there are definite parallels between the texts.
		The story of Cyrus as it pertains to the Israelites in the Bible has some strong parallels with the story of Cyrus told in the archaeological record and non-biblical texts and cannot be discarded as spiritual myth.
	instruct1.cit.cornell.edu /courses/nes263/spring03/dmm75/page6.html (1053 words)

	History of Iran: Cyrus Charter of Human Rights
		This is a confirmation that the Charter of freedom of Humankind issued by Cyrus the Great on his coronation day in Babylon could be considered superior to the Human Rights Manifesto issued by the French revolutionaries in their first national assembly.
		Cyrus the Great entered the city of Babylon in 539 BCE, and after the winter, on the first day of spring, he was officially crowned:
		The description of the coronation of Cyrus is the most elaborate one in the world written by the Greek philosopher, politician, and historian Xenephon (Cyropaedia of Xenophon, The Life of Cyrus The Great).
	www.iranchamber.com /history/cyrus/cyrus_charter.php (932 words)

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