Cyrus Cylinder, a photo from Fars, East

Photographer's Note

This the the Cylinder of Cyrus the Great, the Achaemenian King Of Persia (500 BC). Cyrus in this Cylinder manifests his human rights codes. This is the first ever historical charter of human rights. The original Cylinder is dispayed in the Britihs Museum in London and shows how Iranians recorded the first respect for human rights.

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stranger (726) 2006-04-27 3:59

Hi,
I like this shot, lightining & dark bg is really cool , a cpture of Iranian most valuable heritage which would last forever after in history of humanity that how superpower of the ancient world respected human rights,

TFS,

Shahab.

afshinazizi (6) 2007-04-05 18:06