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📜 From the Archives: The 2,500-Year-Old Innoscription That Cracked the Code of Cuneiform
High on the rugged limestone cliffs of Bisitun Pass, in what is now western Iran, stands a monumental message from the past that changed the course of history.
Commissioned by King Darius I of Persia over 2,500 years ago, this vast innoscription — written in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian — became the key to deciphering cuneiform, the world’s oldest known writing system.
Much like the Rosetta Stone unlocked Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Behistun Innoscription revealed the secrets of Mesopotamia’s lost languages. Once scholars cracked its code, thousands of ancient tablets, once silent, began to speak — telling us of kings and conquests, gods and laws, markets and myths.
Thanks to this single, towering text, the hidden world of the Achaemenid Empire and its neighbors came alive again — a testament to how one innoscription can illuminate an entire civilization.
#TheTimeExcavator #BehistunInnoscription #Cuneiform #AncientPersia #Archaeology #WorldHistory
High on the rugged limestone cliffs of Bisitun Pass, in what is now western Iran, stands a monumental message from the past that changed the course of history.
Commissioned by King Darius I of Persia over 2,500 years ago, this vast innoscription — written in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian — became the key to deciphering cuneiform, the world’s oldest known writing system.
Much like the Rosetta Stone unlocked Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Behistun Innoscription revealed the secrets of Mesopotamia’s lost languages. Once scholars cracked its code, thousands of ancient tablets, once silent, began to speak — telling us of kings and conquests, gods and laws, markets and myths.
Thanks to this single, towering text, the hidden world of the Achaemenid Empire and its neighbors came alive again — a testament to how one innoscription can illuminate an entire civilization.
#TheTimeExcavator #BehistunInnoscription #Cuneiform #AncientPersia #Archaeology #WorldHistory
Forwarded from Alex
London.
I booked myself onto a tour led by some amateur tour guide, was just me and him and we spent the day going around London dissecting all the symbolism in architecture etc. Lots of dragons, lots of pine cones, lots of masonic churches. One stop was London's Mithraeum.
I booked myself onto a tour led by some amateur tour guide, was just me and him and we spent the day going around London dissecting all the symbolism in architecture etc. Lots of dragons, lots of pine cones, lots of masonic churches. One stop was London's Mithraeum.