Episode R5 – Behistun Hat-Trick

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2014

⏱️ 21 minutes

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“The Major constantly and indefatigably employed himself, from daylight to dark, revising, restoring and adding to his former materials. This was a work of great irksomeness and labour in the confined space he was compelled to stand in, with his body in close proximity to the heated rock and under a broiling September sun.” – Felix Jones, 1844 After the debacle of the First Anglo-Afghan War, Henry Creswicke Rawlinson made two more excursions to Behistun. His attempts to copy the remaining inscriptions nearly cost him his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:21.0	Episode R5 Behestoon Hat Trick. Discovery. there were plenty of worse ways to die. But still, to have survived Kurdish
1:36.0	bandits, Afghan armies, disease, and assassination attempts only to lose your life to a rickety ladder, it just seemed a bit, well, anticlimatic.
1:49.1	And most importantly, there were still a lot more inscriptions to copy. At 34 Henry Kreswick
1:56.6	Rawlinson was no longer the same spry young man who had repeatedly climbed up to
2:01.8	the heights of Behistoon eight years earlier.
2:05.0	But on the other hand, he had a good grip on the ladder and no intention of letting go.
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