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10 September 2010
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Cyrus Cylinder loaned to Iran by British Museum
The British Museum has settled a dispute with Iran's national museum over the loan of ancient Persian treasure the Cyrus Cylinder.
In February, the museum in Tehran said it would cut all ties with its British counterpart in protest at a decision to delay an agreed loan of the artefact.
But officials in Tehran now say the 2,500-year-old cylinder has arrived "under special security".
The piece, discovered in Iraq in 1879, will be displayed for four months.
Persian king Cyrus ordered the cylinder to be made following the conquest of Babylon.
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