To the Rock of Darius: The Story of Henry Rawlinson

Afghanistan Akkadian Ambassador ancient Arabic archaeological archaeologist Assyria and Babylonia Assyrian Austen Henry Layard Babylon Babylonian Babylonian-Assyrian Baghdad Bakir Khan began Behistun inscription Behistun Rock Bombay Britain British Museum Candahar career century characters Class I inscriptions copy cunei cuneiform inscriptions cuneiform texts cuneiform writing cylinder Daryavush decipher decipherment dictionaries discovery East India Company England excavations Grotefend Hincks Hormuzd Rassam ideographic ideographic symbols India Council Kabul Kermanshah Khorsabad King of Kings knew Kouyunjik language later Layard learned letters linson Loftus London Major Rawlinson meaning ment Mesopotamia military Mohammed Mosul mound names Nimroud Nineveh officers Old Persian Oppert Oriental palace Parliament Persepolis Persian cuneiform political polyphony pronunciation Rawlin Rawlinson found Rock of Darius Royal Asiatic Society ruins Russia scholars script seemed Semitic sent Shah signs Sir Henry Rawlinson stood studies Sumer Sumerians summer syllables tablets Teheran Tigris tion translation troops Turkish wedge-shaped word wrote Xerxes