Posted on 01/07/2010 4:40:36 PM PST by Texas Fossil
Tehran will cease cooperation with the British Museum in London until it loans the Cyrus the Great Cylinder to the National Museum of Iran.
The clay cylinder is inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform with an account by Cyrus II, king of Persia (559-530 BC). The Cyrus Cylinder is described as the world's first charter of human rights. .......
Iranian officials called on the British Museum to loan the country's ancient cylinder,.....
said Hamid Baqaei
“If the British Museum continues to make excuses for not loaning the artifact to the National Museum, we will, unfortunately, cease any cooperation with them, including archaeological expeditions and research,” he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at presstv.com ...
>Ctesiphon is the one and the same modern day Esfahan or (the more correct Persian spelling) Espahan in central Iran.
Sorry Parisa, I was referring to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctesiphon
I meant to include this link as well in post #61:
“Ctesiphon (Parthian Tyspwn): ancient city on the Tigris (today’s Iraq), founded by the Parthians. The city was the capital of the Parthian and the Sasanian empires.”
http://www.livius.org/ct-cz/ctesiphon/ctesiphon.htm
> “he failed to pay attention to who had posted what and was more interested in bloviating and trying to make himself look superior.”
My post #31 was in reply to Quotes, which I included. Also, historical details in the post were clarifications not anything else.
Your name happened to be the first one on the ping list of my reply.
>”Hope that wasn’t more information than you bargained for! :o)”
Not at all & thanks for the details.
>”I just get too excited sometimes discussing the rich history of Iran!”
I know what you mean. My mother is Iranian-Zoroastrian from Yazd, and I used to live in Iran decades ago, although not in Yazd :-)
Wow, my father too is Yazdi as they say and has Zoroastrian ancestry though he is agnostic now.
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