Empires of the Plain : Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon by Lesley Adkins, Lesley Adkins
Empires of the Plain : Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
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Lesley Adkins, Lesley Adkins
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Empires of the Plain : Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon

Lesley Adkins, Lesley Adkins

missing page info Add in missing page information • first pub 2003 (editions)

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At Besitun there is a cliff face covered with a cuneiform inscription set up in 520 BC to record the exploits of the Persian king Darius the Great. In 1835, Henry Rawlinson began the perilous task of recording this inscription. This text tells the...

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