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Babylonian human rights 'come alive' in Iran

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A 2,500 year old clay artefact, regarded as the world's first recorded bill of human rights, is being returned to the British Museum from Iran, where it has been on show since last September.

BBC Front Row presenter John Wilson was in Tehran and looks at why up to two million people flocked to see the ancient Persian object.


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