Episode R3 – The Place of God

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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“My antiquarian studies go on quietly and smoothly, and despite the taunt which you may remember once expressing, of the presumption of an ignoramus like myself attempting to decipher inscriptions which had baffled for centuries the most learned men in Europe, I have made very considerable progress…I aspire to do for the cuneiform alphabet what Champollion has done for the hieroglyphics.” – Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, July 1836 (writing to his sister Maria) In 1836, Henry Creswicke Rawlinson – British soldier, adventurer and Orientalist – first encountered the Behistun Inscription. He would devote the next few decades to deciphering its three cuneiform scripts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.0	Episode R3, The Place of God. Even 2,300 years after Darius's death, the Behestoon inscription was still a pretty impressive site.
1:34.8	Its well-preserved condition wasn't exactly by accident.
1:39.2	Once the inscription was complete, around 518 BC. The Great King ordered his work crew to demolish the path leading
1:47.6	up to the high cliff face. With so many territories recently in revolt, Darius saw a little point in making his new showpiece,
1:56.5	vandalism friendly. Unfortunately for Lieutenant Henry Kreswick Rawlinson, the removal of the path was not in the least bit helpful.
2:07.4	He'd been waiting to copy the inscription for a good year now, but his regular duties had kept him fully occupied.
2:15.9	What were those duties?
2:17.9	Well, as an East India Company Army officer stationed in Persia in the summer of 1836. His broad mandate was
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