Empires of the Plain

Description:

Chronicles the life of nineteenth-century archaeologist and explorer Henry Rawlinson, describing his ascent of western Iran mountains, where he deciphered ancient carvings that were key to understanding cuneiform scripts and languages.

subjects: Akkadian Cuneiform inscriptions,  Antiquities,  Archaeology,  Assyriologists,  Biography,  Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian,  History,  Old Persian inscriptions,  Old Persian language,  Translating,  Rawlinson, henry creswicke, sir, 1810-1895,  Cuneiform inscriptions

People: Henry Creswicke Rawlinson Sir (1810-1895)

Places: Great Britain,  Iran,  Iraq

Times: 19th century