Decipherment of the Behistun inscription
1835–1847 · Event
Henry Rawlinson copies Darius's trilingual cliff inscription, the 'Rosetta Stone' that unlocks cuneiform.
On these timelines: Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East, Persia and Iran, Master, Science & Technology
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