Scripture: Ezra 1:1–4; Isaiah 44:28–45:1
Cyrus the Great of Persia conquers Babylon and lets exiled Judeans return to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.
A clay cylinder found at Babylon in 1879 by Hormuzd Rassam, now in the British Museum. Cyrus describes taking Babylon and returning displaced peoples and their gods to their home sanctuaries.
Babylon, IraqView on OpenStreetMap
