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British Museum to loan Babylonian artifact to Iran
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Date: Thursday Oct. 22, 2009 4:03 PM ET
LONDON — The British Museum says it will open negotiations with Iran over loaning the country an ancient Babylonian artifact sometimes described as the world's earliest bill of rights.
Spokeswoman Esme Wilson said Wednesday that the museum was preparing to send a member of staff to Tehran to discuss a possible loan of the Cyrus Cylinder, a 6th century BC clay artifact which carries an account by Cyrus, the king of Persia.
The artifact describes how Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 BC and restored many of the people held captive by the Babylonians to their homelands.
The artifact has been described on the UN website and elsewhere as the world's oldest human rights
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