I so agree with Dbachmann that this is a politically charged issue.  i can understand the passions of national pride as well as the need to show all counter points.  but there are some fundamental mistakes in its current posting.  for example, the assertion that the "cylinder represents the first human rights charter in history" is recent simply is not factual.  this had long been conventional wisdom.  the cylinder's discover in 1879 indeed made a big splash in the West when Biblical Archaeology still trumped secular archaeology.  a simple google search will verify that.  the first calls to reconsider its human-rights value came in the mid 1960's when A.K. Grayson published his new translation of the Nabonidus Chronicle which seemed to diametrically contradict Cyrus' humane image.  Hence it is the notion that "scholars generally depict it as a major work of Achaemenid propaganda" which is "recent" not the notion of it being a human-rights charter.