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Henry Rawlinson

Henry Rawlinson

British officer and Assyriologist who copied the Behistun inscription between 1835 and 1847, a key to reading Babylonian cuneiform.

Person

Also known as Henry Creswicke Rawlinson

1810 – 1895

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Wikidata Q309602

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  • Cuneiform

    Copied the Behistun inscription, one of four scholars whose 1857 translations of an Assyrian text agreed.

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