Birthplace of Human Rights

Cykar: Added to YouTube: 2007. Trailer to the documentary, In Search of Cyrus the Great. Trailer is a short documentary itself. Focuses on the history-changing moment in 539 BC when Cyrus the Great of Iran, who is praised by God in the Bible, frees the Jews from their captivity in Babylon, and proclaims the first Declaration of Human Rights, which Jefferson took as a model for our own Bill of Rights. For the actual words of Cyrus' proclamation, click here.