Cyrus takes Babylon; the decree

Cyrus takes Babylon and reverses the deportation by written decree, and the memorandum is filed at Ecbatana.

In plain words

Cyrus of Persia takes Babylon and, by written decree, sends the deported peoples home; Ezra says a copy of the decree was filed at Ecbatana. It is Assyria's method run in reverse: Assyria scattered peoples to erase them, and Cyrus sends them home.

The mechanism

CUSTODY MOVES THE OTHER WAY — Assyria's method ran one direction; this one runs the reverse

Scripture

Ezra 6

How it was checked

• EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / MANUSCRIPT; Status: COMMITTED; a release
• Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
• Plate — Gustave Dore, "Cyrus Restores the Vessels of the Temple" (Ezra 1:1-11), La Sainte Bible (Tours, 1866) · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:104.Cyrus_Restores_the_Vessels_of_the_Temple.jpg
• SourcesARCHAEOLOGY + SCRIPTURE — the Cyrus Cylinder; Ezra 6 citing an imperial archive by location, and it checks