Category: Land Surveying


  • Survey Monuments should be permanent

    But do they rival the Cyrus Cylinder? In a remarkable find, the Cyrus Cylinder, a 2,500-year-old message impressed on clay, was recovered in 1879. This artifact, remnant of a lost world, tells of the Persian conquest of Babylon. A video conveys more of the interesting details and demonstrates how the clay was embossed with a…