Watch: The Cyrus Cylinder
The Cyrus Cylinder (video link)
Why should you watch this?
There are two videos in the link, one for the cylinder and one for the capital of a column, watch them both please. The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous objects to have survived from the ancient world. It was inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform on the orders of Persian King Cyrus the Great (559-530 B.C.E.) after he captured Babylon in 539 B.C.E. It was found in Babylon in modern Iraq in 1879 during a British Museum excavation.