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Cyrus issued a declaration, inscribed on a clay barrel known as [[Cyrus Charter of Human Rights]]. It was discovered in 1879 in Babylon and today is kept in the [[British Museum]]. Many historians have reviewed it as the first declaration of human rights.
Cyrus had two sons: [[Cambyses]] and Smerdis, as well as several daughters, of whom [[Atossa]] is significant in the eyes of posterity, since she married [[Darius I of Persia]] and was mother of [[Xerxes I of Persia]].
According to Herodotus, Cyrus met his death in a battle with the Massagetae, a tribe from the southern deserts of Kharesm, Kizilhoum in the southern most portion of the steppe region. The queen of the Massagetae, Tomryis, prevailed after Cyrus previously defeated Tomyris's son Spargapises. The Massagetae were similar to the Scythians in their dress and mode of living; they fought on horseback and on foot. Ctesias reports that Cyrus met his death in the year 529, while warring against tribes northeast of the headwaters of the Tigris. He was buried in the town of [[Pasargadae]]. Both [[Strabo]] and [[Arrian]] give descriptions of his tomb, based upon reports of men who saw it at the time of [[Alexander the Great|Alexander]]'s invasion. The tomb northeast of [[Persepolis]], which has been claimed as that of Cyrus, is evidently not his, as its location does not fit the reports.
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