Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet
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Rawlinson worked from the multilingual inscription at Behistun, starting with its Old Persian text. He was also one of four scholars who independently translated an Assyrian royal inscription for the Royal Asiatic Society in 1857. The comparison made it possible to judge the readings against each other.
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