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Besides those at Persepolis, a large tri-lingual inscription was found at Behistun, near the city of Kirmenshah, in Persia, which, containing some ninety proper names, enabled Sir Henry Rawlinson definitely to establish a basis for the decipherment of the Mesopotamian inscriptions. The best account is to be found in Hommel's Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens, pp. 58-134.
The decipherment of cuneiform inscriptions, and the study of Assyrian remains up to 1840 Ancient Iran and the Avesta The survey of India and the study of Hindustani The exploration and measurement of the Himalaya mountains The Arabian Peninsula Syria and Palestine Central Asia and Alexander von Humboldt Pike at the sources of the Mississippi, Arkansas, and Red River Major Long's two expeditions General Cass Schoolcraft at the sources of the Mississippi The exploration of New Mexico Archæological expeditions in Central America Scientific expeditions in Brazil Spix and Martin Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied D'Orbigny and American man.
The choice of such positions by the kings who caused the inscriptions to be engraved was dictated by the desire to render it difficult to destroy them, but it has also had the effect of delaying to some extent their copying and decipherment by modern workers. Near Bavian In Assyria.
"You had much better take the paper to the British Museum," said Thorndyke, "and submit it to the keeper of the Phoenician antiquities for decipherment." Inspector Badger smiled a foxy smile as he deposited the paper in his pocket-book. "We'll see what we can make of it ourselves first," he said; "but many thanks for your advice, all the same, Doctor. No, Mr.
One of the most valuable results of the expedition of the great Napoleon to Egypt, ostensibly for scientific and antiquarian purposes, but really for military glory, was the acquisition of the Rosetta stone now in the British Museum which afforded the key to the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphics and of the obelisk of Luxor which now adorns the noble Place de la Concord in Paris.
Among those Assyrian syllabaries which have been so helpful in the decipherment of the wedges, there is one tablet where the primitive form of each symbol is placed opposite the group of strokes which had the same value in after ages. This tablet is, however, quite exceptional, and, as a rule, the cuneiform characters cannot thus be traced to their primitive form.
Finally, the great trilingual inscription of Darius Hystaspes on the rock at Bisutun in Persia, which was formerly copied by the late Sir Henry Raw-linson and used by him for the successful decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions, was completely copied last year by Messrs. King and Thompson. Messrs. King and Thompson are preparing a new edition of this inscription.
The reading of cuneiform inscriptions, and the decipherment of hieroglyphics are events so important in their results, they reveal to us so vast a number of facts hitherto unknown, or distorted in the more or less marvellous narratives of the ancient historians Diodorus, Ctesias, and Herodotus, that it is impossible to pass over scientific discoveries of such value in silence.
The decipherment of this character, however, even with this aid, proved enormously difficult, for it was soon evident that here it was no longer a question of a nearly perfect alphabet of a few characters, but of a syllabary of several hundred characters, including many homophones, or different forms for representing the same sound.
A question that still remains to be considered as to the origin of the cuneiform writing of Mesopotamia, may properly be introduced in connection with this account of the excavations and decipherment, though it is needless to enter into it in detail.
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