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While Hollywood sings high praises of the Spartan culture, it was the Persians who are thought to draft the world’s first human rights charter (or at least something very similar to the scope of human rights, as believed by both the British Museum and United Nations). This charter is better known as the Cyrus Cylinder, as it is basically a baked-clay cylindrical object from 539 BC with engraved Akkadian language. The artifact was created under King Cyrus’s orders, when his army marched inside Babylon, and bloodlessly conquered the fabled city. As for the contents of ancient inscriptions on the tablet, they mainly pertain to – equality for all races, religions and languages; along with the opportunity of slaves and deported people to return to their original homelands.
6 Amazing Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Persians Empire
1) The Persians were the ones to shape the world’s first human rights charter
While Hollywood sings high praises of the Spartan culture, it was the Persians who are thought to draft the world’s first human rights charter (or at least something very similar to the scope of human rights, as believed by both the British Museum and United Nations). This charter is better known as the Cyrus Cylinder, as it is basically a baked-clay cylindrical object from 539 BC with engraved Akkadian language. The artifact was created under King Cyrus’s orders, when his army marched inside Babylon, and bloodlessly conquered the fabled city. As for the contents of ancient inscriptions on the tablet, they mainly pertain to – equality for all races, religions and languages; along with the opportunity of slaves and deported people to return to their original homelands.
While Hollywood sings high praises of the Spartan culture, it was the Persians who are thought to draft the world’s first human rights charter (or at least something very similar to the scope of human rights, as believed by both the British Museum and United Nations). This charter is better known as the Cyrus Cylinder, as it is basically a baked-clay cylindrical object from 539 BC with engraved Akkadian language. The artifact was created under King Cyrus’s orders, when his army marched inside Babylon, and bloodlessly conquered the fabled city. As for the contents of ancient inscriptions on the tablet, they mainly pertain to – equality for all races, religions and languages; along with the opportunity of slaves and deported people to return to their original homelands.