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| #3069754 in Books | 2004-10-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x1.18 x5.08l,.0 | File type: PDF | 464 pages||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Suffers from poor writing style|By Avery|An irritating read that I had to push through to the end. The subject is fascinating and could make for top-quality reading: Henry Rawlinson's discovery of cuneiform and ancient Babylon, true Indiana Jones type stuff. The problem is that the author doesn't really know what kind of information to supply about the discovery. Exactly the wr|From Publishers Weekly|What François Champollion was to Egyptian hieroglyphics, Henry Rawlinson was to Babylonian cuneiform. In 1833 Rawlinson was a brash, courageous and talented young British military officer and amateur philologist posted in Persia. He
How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world's earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations.This is the exciting, true adventure story of Henry Rawlinson, a fearless soldier, sportsman and explorer. From 1827 he spent twenty-five years in India, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. A brilliant linguist, fascinated by history, he became obsessed with cuneiform, the world's earliest writing. An immense inscripti...
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