Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson 1810-95, English Orientalist and administrator; brother of George Rawlinson. In the course of his service with the Persian army and as consul at Baghdad, Rawlinson became interested in deciphering the cuneiform of the Behistun Inscriptions of Darius I. The results of his investigation were published in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1846). He also helped prepare The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia (5 vol., 1861-84) for the British Museum.
Bibliography: See biography by his brother (1898).
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... Canning, statesman, 1770; Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, soldier and orientalist, 1810; Sir Charles Hall (Carl Halle ... Iorwerth, Prince of Wales, 1240; Sir Thomas Wyatt, conspirator ... novelist, 1987. On this day: Sir Thomas Fairfax was victorious ...
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An epic in flux: Gilgamesh, the world's first great literaly work, is still being pieced together.(The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh)(Book review)
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... Gilgamesh By David Damrosch Henry Holt | $26 The Epic of Gilgamesh ... archaeologist and traveler Austen Henry Layard began excavating near ... following the groundbreaking work of Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, who had deciphered cuneiform ...
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