Carved in Stone

High on a sheer cliff face in modern-day Iran lies the Behistun Inscription, a massive rock relief commissioned by Darius the Great. For millennia, its wedge-shaped cuneiform symbols remained completely unreadable, hiding the lost history of Mesopotamia. It wasn't until a daring British officer risked his life scaling the cliff to copy the text that the Rosetta Stone of the East was finally brough...