Title: Empires of the Plain
Subtitle: Henry Rawlinson and the lost languages of Babylon
First published: 2003
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
Places: Great Britain, Iran, Iraq
People: Henry Creswicke Rawlinson Sir (1810-1895)
Time periods: 19th century