00:00Cuneiform writing hid secrets for thousands of years.
00:03Then, Henry Rawlinson faced the Behistun inscription.
00:07A giant rock carving held a lost key.
00:11Rawlinson worked for years comparing unknown languages.
00:14He cracked old Persian cuneiform first.
00:18This opened the door to Akkadian cuneiform.
00:20We then understood mighty Babylonian and Assyrian empires.
00:24Still, one more shocking cuneiform secret remained hidden.
00:28Discover it at the link in bio.
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