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Cyrus's own cylinder records peoples and their sacred things returned to their places after he takes Babylon.
The mechanism
THE RETURNER IN HIS OWN WORDS
How it was checked
- EvidenceT7 PRIMARY DOCUMENT / MEASUREMENT; Status: ADDED 2026-09-18
- Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
- Plate — The Cyrus Cylinder, British Museum · CC0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyrus_Cylinder,_Babylon,_Iraq,_mid_500s_BC,_cuneiform_on_clay_-_British_Museum_-_DSC01316.jpg
- SourcesINSCRIPTION — the Cyrus Cylinder (British Museum)
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