Question

Explain about The Cyrus Cylinder.

Answer 1

1. Cyrus the Great, the first king of ancient Persia, free the slaves and declared that all people had the right to choose their own religion and established racial equality.
2. These and other decrees were recorded on a baked clay cylinder in the Akkadian language in cuneiform script
3. It is translated into all six official languages of the United Nations and its provisions parallel the first four Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.