Jay Xu, Director of the Asian Art Museum and ASNC board member, moderated the discussion. The Cyrus Cylinder dates to 539 BCE and marked Cyrus the Great’s conquest over Babylon. Widely considered to ...

7th-6th centuries B.C. Babylon’s golden age under Chaldean rule is ended by the Persian king Cyrus the Great in 539 B.C. To the 7th century A.D. Macedonians, Seleucids, and Sasanians control ...

Cyrus the Great’s reign began with his invasion of Babylon in 539 BCE. He ruled over the entirety of the eastern Mediterranean, effectively creating the Middle East as we know it today. The empire ...