Day: June 20, 2013

Art, Art Gallery, Art Shows, featured, Museum Show

The Cyrus Cylinder–2,600-Year-Old Symbol of Tolerance—on View at Metropolitan Museum

June 20-August 4, 2013 Gallery 404, Galleries of Ancient Near Eastern Art The Cyrus Cylinder—a 2,600-year-old inscribed clay document from Babylon in ancient Iraq and one of the most famous surviving icons from the ancient world—is the centerpiece of the traveling exhibition The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: Charting a […]