• Farrokh Lecture on Cyrus the Great in Washington DC Nov 3 2012

Articles and Books by Western and Iranian Scholars and Writers

• Jacob Abbott (1904). Makers of History: Cyrus the Great, by with Engravings. New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers - a Project Gutenberg ebook endeavor.
• Professor Richard Nelson Frye: Cyrus the Great
• Professor George C. Cameroon: Cyrus the “father” and Babylonia (pdf)
• Professor Jakob Jonsson: Cyrus the Great in Icelandic Epics – a Literary Study (pdf) – see also Hessam’s Blog: کوروش بزرگ در حماسه های ایسلندی-  
• Professor Max Mallowan (1972). Cyrus the Great (558-529 B.C.). Iran, Vol. 10, pp. 1-17. (pdf)
•  -پرفسور گورگيس روکس و کوروش بزرگ-نگارش: دکتر کاوه فرخ—برگردان به پارسي: حسام الدين شافعيان-also in pdf- Professor Georges Roux and Cyrus the Great
• Hirad Abtahi: Reflections on the Ambiguous Universality of Human Rights: Cyrus the Great’s Proclamation as a Challenge to the Athenian Democracy’s Percieved Monopoly on Human Rights (pdf)
• Borbor, Dariush (2008. Iran’s Contributions to Human Rights, the Rights of Women and Democracy. Iran and the Caucasus, Volume 12, Number 1, 2008 , pp. 101-121(21).
• Neil MacGregor: 2600 years of history in one object
• Huffington Post (Kristin M. Swenson, October 28, 2011): International Cyrus The Great Day: Common Ground For World Religions? – forwarded to Kavehfarrokh.com by the Pasargard Foundation - see also روز جهانی کوروش بزرگ: روز مشترک ميان همه دين های جهان
• Perri Birney and Lawrence Birney: The Cyrus Cylinder, Eleanor Roosevelt & The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2013)

Articles by Iranian Scholars (in Persian)

• Amir Hossein Khanji: Cyrus the Great and the Achaemenid Dynasty (in Persian text only; pdf).
• Jalal Khaleghi Motlagh: Kaykhosrow and Cyrus (in Persian; pdf).
• از زبان كورش – Cyrus’ own Words (in Persian; By Dr. Ali Doostzadeh)

• کورش، افتخار ايران Cyrus the Pride of Iran (in Persian; By Dr. Ali Doostzadeh).

• چرا كورش؟ در پاسخ به مينا خوابگرد- Why Cyrus? In Response to Mina Khabgerd (in Persian; By Dr. Ali Doostzadeh).
• The Persian Christian Research Center: Article on Cyrus the Great (in Persian)
• Amordad-قانون اساسي «آمريكا» با الهام از «كوروش‌نامه» نوشته شد-
• -یزدان صفایی-Yazdan Safaie: -انگیزه و خاستگاه مقام اندرزگری کرزوس نزد کورش در نظر مورخان یونانی-The role of Croesus’ position as advisor to Cyrus in the views of Greek historians
• -سورنا فیروزی-Surena Firouzi: The process of democracy and the cultivation of collective decision-making -روند سیاسی دموکراتیک در نخستین سامانه آموزش پرورش همگانی-
• -کورش محسنی- Kourosh Mohseni: - تصویر برجای مانده از کورش بزرگ-The surviving image of Cyrus the Great

The Cyrus Cylinder

• Dr. Mosi Dorbayani: The Cyrus Cylinder
• Discovery of Chinese bones bearing inscriptions of Cyrus the Great’s Proclaimations
• Translation of the Cyrus Cylinder by the British Museum (posted May 15, 2009)

See also:

• The Cyrus Cylinder from the Human Rights Evolution website (by Dr. M. Dorbayani).

Cyrus the Great and the Jews

• Professor Amnon Netzer: Some notes on the Characterization of Cyrus the Great in Jewish and Judeo-Persian Writings (pdf).
• President Harry S. Truman: “I am Cyrus”-Hessam Blog  رزیدنت هری ترومن: “من کوروش هستم”-
• Tombs of Iranian Jews
• Abdol-Hossein Sardari: Iranian Schindler who Saved Jews from Nazis
• The Khazars and European Jews: see History Today: Khazaria: A Forgotten Jewish Empire and France 24 International News: Gene study settles debate over origin of European Jews

Cyrus the Great and Babylon

• -قتل‌عام مردم اکد: به فرمان کورش یا نبونید؟-رضا مرادی غیاث آبادی -Reza Moradi Ghiasabadi: The mass murder of the peopel of Akkad: ordered by Cyrus or Nabonidus? (in Persian)
• کاوه فرخ، -ورود کورش به بابل می گوید-–فرمان های روشن و صريح او در مورد آزادی مذهب، مسکن، زبان، صلح، رفاه و برابری -Kaveh Farrokh interview posted in Pasargard Foundation: The entrance of Cyrus into Babaylon and his edicts on freedom of religion, the right for living arrangements, language, security and equality (audio interview-پیوند به صدا- in Persian)  - posted also in -دکتر کاوه فرخ ورود کورش به بابل می گوید-in Hessameddin Shafeian site

 The Cyropedia of Xenophon

• Cyropedia of Xenophon translated by H.G. Dakyns (pdf)
• -زندگینامۀ کوروش بزرگ-خشایار رُخسانی-Cyropedia of Xenophon translated into Persian by Khaschayar Rochssani (pdf)
• Hirad Abtahi. Reflections on the ambiguous Universality of Human Rights: Cyrus the Great’s proclaimation as a challenge to the Athenian Democracy’s percieved monopoly on Human Rights (pdf)

The Greco-Romans, Jews, Christians and Europeans

• Book (download in pdf):FJörg Frey, Daniel R. Schwartz & Stephanie Gripentrog (Editors, 2007). Jewish Identity in the Greco-Roman World. Leiden: Boston.
• Hillary Clinton cites Cyrus the Great as the First Defender of Human Rights
• Christian-Biblical views of the Cyrus prophecies
• Amordad Magazine: -قانون اساسي «آمريكا» با الهام از «كوروش‌نامه» نوشته شد -The writing of the US Constitution has been inspired by the Cyropedia

Cyrus the Great and the Shahname

• Professor Wladyslaw Duleba: The Cyrus Legend in the Shahname – document available in 10 segments pdf: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10.

Cyrus the Great International Open University(founder Dr. Homer Abramian)

• Preamble & Introduction, Summary of Curriculum,
• Mission Statement: Part 1, Part 2, Tarikh Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11

Contemporary Arts & Music representing Cyrus the Great

• Hessamoddin Shafeian: -هنر در خدمت زنده نگاه داشتن نام کوروش بزرگ-The arts utilized in keeping alive the name of Cyrus the Great
• Iranian musicians singing for Cyrus the Great
• Cyrus the Great from Sketch to Statue-مجسمه کوروش بزرگ -