The rather bland title of The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, Deciphered and Translateddoesn’t quite capture the Indiana Jones tactics that Major Rawlinson went to in the mid 1800s in order to write his book about the inscription. The Behistun Inscription was chiseled into a cliff in what is now Iran, under the direction of Darius the Great between 522 BC and 486 BC. It is essentially a relief and description of how awesome he was as ruler of the Persians.


Rawlinson was dangling off a cliff to get to this writing almost a full century before Indiana Jones began saving the world’s antiquities. That’s pretty impressive back-story for a old book about cuneiform.
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