The Cyrus cylinder was and still is an extraordinary archaeological object. The object is not remarkable for any physical reasons, but rather for the historical importance it played and recorded. It gave us a second account of the story of the freeing of the Jews. The themes included in the story, tolerance, homecoming, and the will of god(s), reverberate throughout history and the region. To use an object like the Cyrus cylinder as a source, Neil MacGregor compared it to other sources of the time, and about the subject. He looks at what parts they agreed upon and where they differed. It was important to look at both parts and then try to understand why they were different. The cylinder has an advantage as a solid object, it has not changed
