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By: Mandana Divanbeiki

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After the British Museum denied to lend Iran the Cyrus Cylinder for a showcase, the country cut all ties with the Museum. Hamid Baqaii, Cultural Heritage's Tourism and Handicrafts Organization Director, also a vice president, announced this on Saturday during a press conference.

Iran has been waiting for the cylinder on loan since 2005 after the National Museum of Iran loaned the British Museum a number of artifacts for the "Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia" show in London.

On January 16 the cylinder was to be put on display, but the British Museum said there would be a delay. The Museum said that there was a delay dueto discovery of two cuneiform tablets in BM's collection of Babylonian art, which contain similar passages to those found on the cylinder. But Iran preceives this delay political, due to country's disputed post-elections.

Baqaii said "The British Museum is not only a cultural place but also is a political center. We intend to send letters to museum officials around the world, suggesting that they take a lesson from our experience. If they want to collaborate with the BM, they must receive the approval of the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs beforehand in order to avoid any problems. They are thirsty for cultural relations with Iran as a part of the great human civilization. This break in relations will hurt their cultural, research, and scientific complex."

The Cyrus Cylinder, a document issued by the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great in the form of a clay cylinder inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform script, is considered the world's first declaration of human rights. The artifact was made after the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BC, when Cyrus overthrew and replaced the Babylonian king Nabonidus, ending the Neo-Babylonian Empire.

The cylinder's writing condemns Nabonidus as godless and describes the victorious Cyrus as pleasing to Marduk, the chief Babylonian god; and it says that Cyrus improved Babylonian's lives, displaced people and restored temples and cult sanctuaries.

Hormuz Rassam, the Assyro-British archaeologist, discovered the cylinder in 1879, in the foundations of the Esagila, the main temple of Babylon.

Source: Payvand Iran News

My Opinion

King Cyrus, king of Persia, is also mentioned in the Bible. He rebuilt a temple for the Jews and was also pleasing to the God of the Jews. Cyrus was just a popular guy.

I don't blame Iran for wanting to showcase a part of their history that they can be proud of, as opposed to Islam's history in the country. But I also believe that the artifact is probably safer at the British Museum, since the Great Britain, for the most part, values Biblical and historical artifacts, especially when the two combine.

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