981793 Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, English soldier, politician and Orientalist (b/w photo) by Lock and Whitfield (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Maj.-Gen. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet CB (1810-95), British politician, army officer and Orientalist who deciphered the Old Persian portion of the trilingual cuneiform inscription of Darius I the Great at B蘋sit贖n, Iran. His success provided the key to the deciphering, by himself and others, of Mesopotamian cuneiform script, a feat that greatly expanded knowledge of the ancient Middle East.); Look and Learn / Elgar Collection; English, out of copyright.