Cyrus and His Cylinder: What Was He Thinking?

Name: Cyrus and His Cylinder: What Was He Thinking?
Start: 2024-05-01T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-05-01T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Yale Peabody Museum

Schedule

Wed May 01 2024 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Yale Peabody Museum | New Haven, CT

In 539 BC King Cyrus I conquered Babylon. As part of the introduction to his new subjects, Cyrus left a remarkable document, now known as the Cyrus Cylinder, regarded as the first charter of human rights. The Peabody Museum is delighted to host this important artifact, on loan from the British Museum.
Irving Finkel, senior assistant keeper at the British Museum, will be delivering a free lecture called “Cyrus and his Cylinder: What Was He Thinking?” on Wednesday, May 1at 630 pm. It will be the first talk held in the Peabody’s new Central Gallery.
Finkel is the best-selling author of "The Ark Before Noah," which documents the newly translated tablet of the Babylonian story of the flood which was recorded on clay tablets long before it was written down in the Hebrew Bible, proving it to be one of the world’s most ancient and lasting stories.
His lectures on cracking ancient codes, the Ark before Noah, and deciphering the world’s oldest rule book have been viewed about 7 million times.
The talk will tackle the realities about the cylinder, and explain how progress in archaeological research has widened our understanding of the man and his motives.
Tickets are free!