Corroborating this account is a clay document known as the Cyrus Cylinder, discovered in 1879 in the ruins of ancient Babylon.
( Ezras 1: 1 — 7; 6: 3 — 5.) To apstiprina māla dokuments, saukts par Kīra cilindru, kas 1879. gadā tika atrasts senās Babilonas drupās.