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| February 27, 2003 Ancient language  The painting is of Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, who is credited with having deciphered the Old Persian cuneiform script from copies he made of the inscription at Behistun (though the script was independantly and simultaneously deciphered by Lassen). Since Darius's inscription at Behistun was inscribed in Akkadian and Elamite as well as Old Persian, Rawlinson's work on Old Persian allowed scholars to decipher the other scripts, and thus the field of Assyriology was born. Though our understanding of the Old Persian language has changed considerably since Rawlinson's time, his contribution to the field was considerable and given what little previous knowledge he had to work with, Rawlinson's translations of the Old Persian texts were remarkably accurate >>> Also see Quiz winner: Dan Sheffield. Sad Afarin! Do you have an interesting question to suggest for this page? Email us Response to previous quiz questions >>> HERE 
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