03/10/2013
Cyrus Cylinder International Touring Exhibition
At last week’s staff breakfast, John Curtis, Keeper of Special Middle East Projects at the British Museum, presented the Cyrus Cylinder and gave us an overview of its international tour. The Cyrus Cylinder is a clay cylinder inscribed with Babylonian cuniform, which was found in Bablylon in 1879. The cuniform inscription describes King Cyrus the […]
