LONDON (AP).- A 2,500-year-old Babylonian artifact sometimes described as the world’s first human rights charter was returning to the British Museum Monday after a seven-month loan to Iran. Hundreds of thousands of people viewed the Cyrus Cylinder whil…
Interview with Beate Salje, Director of Berlin’s Museum of the Ancient Near East
BERLIN.- For everything we’ve ever wanted to know about the Museum of the Ancient Near East… Director Beate Salje has the answers. Who were the most important discoverers and excavators of the archaeological objects in your collection? Well for a sta…
Cyrus the Great Artifact to Be Displayed in Iran’s National Museum
TEHRAN (AP).- A Babylonian artifact sometimes described as the world’s first human rights charter is to go on display in Iran after the government threatened to cut ties with the British Museum if it did not loan the object. The Cyrus Cylinder is a six…
Cyrus the Great Artifact to Be Displayed in Iran’s National Museum
TEHRAN (AP).- A Babylonian artifact sometimes described as the world’s first human rights charter is to go on display in Iran after the government threatened to cut ties with the British Museum if it did not loan the object. The Cyrus Cylinder is a six…