what is the name of a 6th century object found in the ruins of Babylon, and was used for printing?
the Cyrus Cylinder
Printing
Printing is a process for reproducing text and images using a master form or template.
 The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus.
 The earliest known form of printing as applied to paper was woodblock printing, which appeared in China before 220 A.D. Later developments in printing technology include the movable type invented by Bi Sheng around 1040 AD and the printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century.
 The technology of printing played a key role in the development of the Renaissance and the scientific revolution, and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses.
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.
Etemenanki
Etemenanki (Sumerian 𒂍</a>𒋼<a href="Dingir">𒀭</a><a href="Ninhursag">𒆠</a> "<a href="temple">temple</a> of the foundation of heaven and earth") is the name of a <a href="ziggurat">ziggurat</a> dedicated to <a href="Marduk">Marduk</a> in the city of <a href="Babylon">Babylon</a> of the 6th century BCE <a href="Neo-Babylonian%20dynasty">Neo-Babylonian dynasty</a>.
 Originally 91 meters in height, little remains of it now except ruins. (15760) 1992 QB1
(15760) 1992 QB was the first trans-Neptunian object to be discovered after Pluto and Charon.
 It was discovered in 1992 by David C. Jewitt and Jane X. Luu at the Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii.
 It is a classical Kuiper belt object and gave rise to the name "cubewano" for this kind of object, after the "QB1" portion of its designation.
 Decoding its provisional designation, "QB" reveals that it was the 27th object found in the second half of August of that year.
 Over 1,500 further objects have been found beyond Neptune, a good number of which are classical Kuiper belt objects. History of printing in East Asia
Printing in East Asia evolved from ink rubbings made on paper or cloth from texts on stone tables in China during the Han dynasty (206 BC–220 CE).
 Mechanical woodblock printing on paper started in China during the Tang dynasty before the 8th century CE.
 Use of woodblock printing quickly spread to other East Asian countries.
 While the Chinese used only clay and wood movable type at first, use of metal movable type was pioneered in Korea by the 13th century .
 The Western-style printing press became known in East Asia by the 16th century but was not fully adopted until centuries later. Jeconiah
Jeconiah (Hebrew: יְכָנְיָה‎ "Yəḵonyā" ] , meaning "Yah has established"; Greek: Ιεχονιας ; Latin: "Iechonias, Jechonias" ), also known as Coniah and as Jehoiachin (Hebrew: יְהֹויָכִין‎ ] ; Latin: "Ioachin, Joachin" ), was a king of Judah who was dethroned by the King of Babylon in the 6th century BC and was taken into captivity.
 He was the son and successor of King Jehoiakim.
 Most of what is known about Jeconiah is found in the Hebrew Bible.
 Records of Jeconiah's existence have been found in Iraq, such as the Jehoiachin's Rations Tablets.
 These tablets were excavated near the Ishtar Gate in Babylon and have been dated to c. 592 BC.
 Written in cuneiform, they mention Jeconiah (""Ia-'-ú-kinu"") and his five sons as recipients of food rations in Babylon. Electrotyping
Electrotyping (also galvanoplasty) is a chemical method for forming metal parts that exactly reproduce a model.
 The method was invented by Moritz von Jacobi in Russia in 1838, and was immediately adopted for applications in printing and several other fields.
 As described in an 1890 treatise, electrotyping produces "an exact facsimile of any object having an irregular surface, whether it be an engraved steel- or copper-plate, a wood-cut, or a form of set-up type, to be used for printing; or a medal, medallion, statue, bust, or even a natural object, for art purposes."
 In art, several important "bronze" sculptures created in the 19th century are actually electrotyped copper, and not bronze at all; sculptures were executed using electrotyping at least into the 1930s.
 In printing, electrotyping had become a standard method for producing plates for letterpress printing by the late 1800s.
 It complemented the older technology of stereotyping, which involved metal casting.
 By 1901, stereotypers and electrotypers in several countries had formed labor unions around these crafts.
 The unions persisted into the 1970s, but by the late 20th century, after more than a century in widespread use for preparing plates, the two technologies had been bypassed by the transitions to offset printing and to new techniques for the preparation of printing plates. Jehoiachin's Rations Tablets
Jehoiachin's rations tablets date from the 6th century BC and describe the rations set aside for a royal captive identified with Jeconiah, king of Judah.
 Tablets from the royal archives of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon were unearthed in the ruins of Babylon that contain food rations paid to captives and craftsmen who lived in and around the city.
 On one of the tablets, "Ya’u-kīnu, king of the land of Yahudu" is mentioned along with his five sons listed as royal princes. Altis
The Altis (Greek: Ἄλτις) also referred to as the sanctuary to the gods, is the name of a location most well known for being a place of significant religious importance to the Ancient Greeks, considered to be a sacred precinct that was constructed and used from around 776 BCE to fourth century BCE and used for the worship of several Greek gods and goddesses.
 Though the architects are not definitively known, it is generally attributed to be partially the work of Libon of Elis.
 Located in the wide valley of the Alfeiós River (also Romanized as Alpheus, Alpheios) in the western part of Peloponnesus, around 18 kilometers away from the Ionian Sea, the name Altis was derived from a corruption of the Elean word alsos meaning “the grove” because the area was thickly wooded with oaks, plane trees, poplars, and olives.
 The structure itself was an irregular quadrangular area more than 200 yards (183 meters) on each side and walled except to the North where it was bounded by the Kronion (Mount Kronos).
 Inside were sanctuaries, the centers of religious worship, where the Greeks built over 70 temples, treasuries, altars, statues, and other structures in dedication to their gods.
 The site was continuously inhabited from Mycenaean times until the 6th century BCE, where cult activity apparently first began at the foot of the hill of Kronos where altars to the goddesses Rhea, Gaia, and Eileithyia have left their traces.
 Some other cults found here were devoted to figures like the hero cult of Pelops and Hippodameia (arguably the oldest shrine there) important mythological figures that are generally known for the founding myth of the Olympic Games.
 During the time of the Dorian Invasion settlers from northwestern Greece inhabited the Altis whereby they introduced the worship of two major Greek deities in the Greek pantheon Hera and Zeus as well as constructing the most memorable things there, the Sanctuary and altar of Zeus, where to this day the ruins of the two principal temples: the Temple of Hera (6th century BCE) and the Temple of Zeus (5th century BCE) still remain.
 Throughout Antiquity this Temple was considered the most perfect example of the Doric order.
 This sanctuary also contained one of the highest concentrations of masterpieces of the ancient Mediterranean world though many have since been lost.
 In connection with the cult of Zeus the Altis was then given the name Olympia, with famous Olympia, Greece being built on this site where also the first Olympic Games took place here, once every four years. Woodblock printing
Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper.
 As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving examples from China date to before 220 AD, and woodblock printing remained the most common East Asian method of printing books and other texts, as well as images, until the 19th century. "
Ukiyo-e" is the best known type of Japanese woodblock art print.
 Most European uses of the technique for printing images on paper are covered by the art term woodcut, except for the block-books produced mainly in the 15th century in India.