. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . The Rock of Behistan from the South(From Rawlinson). View of the Behistan Rock from the Upper End(Sketched from a photograph by the author) GROTEFEND THE FIRST DECIPHERER 177 before the Academy of Sciences at Gottingen, September 4,1802, and thus founded the science of cuneiform key to the riddle having at last been discovered, otherscholars continued the work begun by Grotefend, so that weare able to-day to read all the Persian inscriptions and also totranslate the p
. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . The Rock of Behistan from the South(From Rawlinson). View of the Behistan Rock from the Upper End(Sketched from a photograph by the author) GROTEFEND THE FIRST DECIPHERER 177 before the Academy of Sciences at Gottingen, September 4,1802, and thus founded the science of cuneiform key to the riddle having at last been discovered, otherscholars continued the work begun by Grotefend, so that weare able to-day to read all the Persian inscriptions and also totranslate the parallel versions of them in Elamitic and Baby-lonian. ^ But foremost among the contributors to the scienceof cuneiform interpretation, whether German, French, or Dan-ish, was the noted Englishman Rawlinson, who was a soldieras well as a scholar. To Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson,afterwards Sir Henry Rawlinson, Privy Councillor, belongs thehonor of deciphering the Ganj Namah tablets at Hamadan, andthe glory of being the first to ascend the Behistan rock andcopy the inscription of Darius.^ The Behistan Mountain, ^a<yiaTavovOpo<i, or Bisitun, as thenati
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