به یاد کوروش دوم یا سیروس دوم شاه بزرگ ایران بنیان گذار ایران و سلسله هخامنشیان 

هفتم آبان یا 29اکتبر(539ق.م) روزی است که کوروش بزرگ با صلح و آرامش و بدون جنگ و خونریزی وارد بابل باستانی شد. بابل یکی از بزرگترین و باعظمت ترین شهرهای دنیای باستان و چهارراه تلاقی فرهنگهای گوناگون و محل تداخل مذاهب باستانی بود.

Cyrus Cylinder is a Cylindrical Relief found in Babylon, southern Iraq. and it contains the sayings of Cyrus the Great, King of Old Persia.

It is now being kept in British Museum but for a short time it was allowed to be shown in Iran. The wrong or right of this action (Britain keeps other countries historical crafts in its own custody (is a subject of debate. In One side It is not their own and they should return it completely but in other hand, looking at Iranian museum’s condition and the management of these places one should may consider this would be safer to keep this cylinder in a highly developed museum such as British’s . I hope someday we can have the technology to keep it safe and bring it back.

Here is a picture I took during this short visit from Cyrus Cylinder.