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Identifier: cu31924028627036 Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 Subjects: Zoroastrianism Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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Text Appearing After Image: View hv the Behistan Rock from the Uppkk End(Sketeheil from a pliotograph by the autli(ji) GROTEFEND THE FIRST DECIPHERER 177 before the Academy of Sciences at Gottingen, September 4,1802, and thus founded the science of cuneiform decipherment.The key to the riddle having at last been discovered, otherscholars continued the work begun by Grotefend, so that weare able to-day to read all the Persian inscriptions and also totranslate the parallel versions of them in Elamitic and Baby-lonian.^ But foremost among the contributors to the scienceof cuneiform interpretation, whether German, French, or Dan-ish, was the noted Englishman Rawlinson, who was a soldieras well as a scholar. To Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson,afterwards Sir Henry Rawlinson, Privy Councillor, belongs thehonor of deciphering the Ganj Namah tablets at Hamadan, andthe glory of being the first to ascend the Behistan rock andcopy the inscription of Darius.^ The Behistan Mountain, Bayia-ravov Opo<;, or Bisitun, as thenat
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