The Cyrus Cylinder — one of the most famous objects to have survived from the ancient world — comes to the MFAH on a limited U.S. tour. A touchstone of civilization, the Cyrus Cylinder is truly an ...
Introduction: The Most Beautiful Blues -- Defining Polychromies -- Historiographical Overview, Part I: Approaching Achaemenid Persian Polychromies in the Nineteenth Century-Ancient Literary Testimony ...
Making its US debut is a football-sized, barrel-shaped ancient clay cylinder covered with Babylonian cuneiform, one of the earliest written languages, that announced Cyrus's victory and his intention ...