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Posted: 27 Jun 2021

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Carsten Niebuhr

Carsten Niebuhr
Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815), the first man to draw accurately the cuneiform inscriptions at Persepolis. Niebuhr was an indefatigable traveller and scholar, who returned alone from India to Denmark, via Persepolis. He published his first drawings in 1772. Careful study enabled him to show that there were three different cuneiform scripts at Persepolis

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 Dinesh
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. . . .Visitors published inscriptions in the first half of the 18th century, but there was no progress in deciphering their meaning until 1770s. Carsten Niebuhr, a remarkable Danish traveller, noticed that many of the inscriptions were duplicated, enabling his to check one set of readings against another. From the fact that the line-ending in duplicate inscriptions did not always fall in the same place, Niebuhr was able to confirm the left-to-right direction of the writing. By comparing signs in different inscriptions, he distinguished clearly three scripts. He also began the process of isolating the simplest signs. The decipherment proper, starting after 1800, was built upon the work of Niebuhr. - page 73
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 Dinesh
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THE STORY OF WRITING
3 years ago.
 J.Garcia
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OH!!
Fantastic and fabulous informations!!
Many thanks!!
I will come back with great pleasure, Dinesh!!
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