Symbol of Tolerance

Director of the British Museum on importance of 2600-year-old Cyrus Cylinder

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Symbol of Tolerance
by ShirinT
21-Feb-2012
 

TED: "A clay cylinder covered in Akkadian cuneiform script, damaged and broken, the Cyrus Cylinder is a powerful symbol of religious tolerance and multi-culturalism. In this enthralling talk Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, traces 2600 years of Middle Eastern history through this single object. The writer and presenter of the BBC Radio 4 series "A History of the World in 100 Objects" and the accompanying book."


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Jahanshah Javid

multi-culturalism, tolerance

by Jahanshah Javid on Mon Feb 20, 2012 04:29 PM PST

multi-culturalism, tolerance... we had it 2,600 years ago. we can have it again. of course we can.

I really liked the talk. the only glaring mistake was that he said cyrus and the cylinder were glorified during the Iran-Iraq war. Hardly. It was the opposite. Islamic symbols flourished during the war at the expense of pre-Islamic ones.


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