Home Iran: MEK Supporters Commemorate “Cyrus the Great Day” Cyrus the Great, the first king of Persia, freed the slaves of Babylon, 539 B.C.

Cyrus the Great, the first king of Persia, freed the slaves of Babylon, 539 B.C.

The decrees Cyrus made on human rights were inscribed in the Akkadian language on a baked-clay cylinder.