what is the name of a 6th century object found in the ruins of Babylon, and was used for printing?
Cyrus Cylinder The Cyrus Cylinder (Persian: "Ostovane-ye Kurosh" ; استوانه کوروش‎ ‎ ) or Cyrus Charter (Persian: "Manshūre Kūrosh" ; منشور کوروش‎ ‎ ) is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several pieces, on which is written a declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of Persia's Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great. It dates from the 6th century BC and was discovered in the ruins of Babylon in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) in 1879. It is currently in the possession of the British Museum, which sponsored the expedition that discovered the cylinder. It was created and used as a foundation deposit following the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BC, when the Neo-Babylonian Empire was invaded by Cyrus and incorporated into his Persian Empire.
Palm-leaf manuscript Palm-leaf manuscripts are manuscripts made out of dried palm leaves. Palm leaves were used as writing materials in the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast Asia dating back to the 5th century BCE, and possibly much earlier. Their use began in South Asia, and spread elsewhere, as texts on dried and smoke treated palm leaves of "Borassus" species (Palmyra palm) or the Ola leaf (leaf of "Corypha umbraculifera" or the talipot palm).