In China, found a copy of the “ancient declaration of human rights”

Specialists of the British Museum confirmed the authenticity of the two fossil horse bones, containing a partial copy of the text of the famous cylinder of Cyrus the Great - the most important monument Akkadian cuneiform and, according to the popular definition, “ancient declaration of human rights. , Writes The Art Newspaper, with reference to Irving Finkel (Irving Finkel), Department of West Asian antiquities curator of the British Museum and one of the world’s leading specialists in cuneiform.

The bones were transferred to the museum’s collection of inscriptions of the Forbidden City in 1985 by some Shenveem Xue, a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine. He was already very old and died in the same year. Before his death he had told the Chinese museum, which bought a bone in 1935, and the other in - 1940, although the learned of their existence even in 1928. During the Cultural Revolution (1965-1976) Xue Shenvey hid them in the ground, fearing persecution for possession of “survivals of the past.

Xue Shenvey assumed that the inscriptions on the bones are of Chinese origin, but the experts of the Forbidden City Museum have determined that they are written in Akkadian cuneiform, and are fragments of so-called “Manifesto of Cyrus the Great,” carved in the VI century BC, on a clay cylinder, buried in the wall of Babylon .

Bone copy of “Manifesto” was rather strange: Copy only about every twentieth cuneiform characters, which greatly hampered the identification of the inscription. Text of the cylinder of Cyrus the Great was considered unique until January 2010, when the experts of the same British Museum found that two clay tablets stored in his collection, contain fragments of the “Manifesto”. This proved that the text was well known in the ancient world, although the original and was immured in the Babylonian wall.

4 August 2010

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