Cyrus The Great Cylinder t shirt

WeAdmire t shirts are consistently topical. Last week, you could celebrate the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first flight in space with as many as four of our t shirts and this week you can celebrate the fact that the curator of The British Museum has been the de facto British Ambassador to Iran for the last year or so because he agreed to lend the Iranians the Cyrus The Great Cylinder. Cyrus The Great came to be considered great because he was tolerant and his governments were commercially successful and governed for the benefit of the governed. Revolutionary stuff in 600BC and as effective then as it is now, when it happens. The Persian Empire Cyrus governed stretched from the River Indus in the east, to Macedonia in the west. So extensive and successful. The question remains why more governments don't take up his ideas.

The Cyrus Cylinder, not un-typically obtained by the British Museum in iffy colonial circumstances in 1879, is widely held to be the first declaration of Human Rights. In this regard it is vigorously promoted by the UN. If our Cyrus t shirt is not enough for you go and see his cylinder in room 55 of the British Museum.

The Cyrus Cylinder was returned to London on 18 April, following a seven-month loan to Iran by the British Museum. The National Museum in Tehran claims it was seen by over 1m visitors. Many of these visitors would probably buy our Mousavi Where is My Vote t shirt if they were not to be persecuted for doing so. The Iranian Government would probably do well to see this. Best not to hold our breath while we wait for them to see the contradiction between the success of their past and the underperformance of their present administration.

Declare your support for tolerance - buy and wear our Cyrus The Great t shirt.


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