Rumors, Myths and Beyond Belief

Mary Conceicao Coelho writes an amazing Story Blog shared on FB about ancient monuments and people. This is one where a daring young British man named Sir Henry Rawlinson climbed up a ladder to inspect cuniforms carved into the Rock. Three different forms of cuniforms were noted and helped lead to a translation of Ancient Persian, Elamite and Babylonian.

https://www.livius.org/articles/place/behistun/