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Copy of Inscription of Xerxes at Mt. Alvand near Hiamadan.

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achaemenid ancient graphic arts inscription iranian

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Sir Henry Creswicke RAWLINSON: Rawlinson was a British army officer and Oreintalist who decifered the Old Persian portion of the trilingual cuneiform inscription of Darius and Xerxes. Their names led to the decifering of Old Persian.

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