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Roy and Lesley Adkins are a husband and wife team of social historians who have turned their attention to our birdlife and human interaction with them over the centuries in a new book.
How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world s earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq s ancient civilizations.
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 inscription on a sheer rock face at Bisitun in Iran was the key to understanding the many cuneiform scripts and languages, and only Rawlinson had the skills to achieve the perilous ascent and copy the monument.
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