The small clay cylinder, 2500 years old and a bit beat up has quietly moved people all over the world since its very beginnings. Cyrus II, founder of the Persian Empire produced this declaration of intent for liberty and peace. The National Museum of Iran recently reported that besides Iranian schoolchildren, elites, and not-so, officials from countries far and wide (Brazil, the Philippines, Tajikistan, countries in Africa, the Netherlands…) have come to see it, on loan from the British Museum. How I’d love to overhear their conversations. Just imagine…
