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The Cyrus Cylinder

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Babylon

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British Museum object record for a primary Achaemenid-period inscription concerning Cyrus, Babylon, and Marduk; use as imperial messaging rather than a neutral conquest report.

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Babylon is archaeologically and historically documented.

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AT-0643 documents a modern ancient-astronaut framework, while the listed Babylon archaeology, history, and imperial-message sources provide no positive evidence for alien or lost-modern technology.

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