The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art invites you to a public lecture: "The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia."

Discover the significance of the Cylinder and its legacy.

July 7th (closed): Reading the Cyrus Cylinder
Irving L. Finkel, Assistant Keeper, Department of the Middle East, The British Museum

July 7th (closed): "Cyrus and the Case for Greatness": A View from the Writings of Herodotus and Xenophon Robert K. Faulkner, Professor, Department of Political Science, Boston College

July 7th (closed): Conversation moderated by Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Professor of History and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto

This program is presented with the exhibition The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: Charting a New Empire.