With the Persian text, and with about a third of the syllabary made available to him by the work of Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Rawlinson set to work on deciphering the text.
==Prevod==Okoli leta 1764 je Behistunski napis v imenu Friderika V. Danskega obiskal nemški geodet Carsten Niebuhr in leta 1778 v poročilu o svojem potovanju objavil njegov prepis.