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- Carsten Niebuhr traveled to Persepolis (1764) and made excellent copies of the inscriptions, identified that there were three scripts in use
- Friedrich Munter guessed (1802) that in the Old-Persian inscription the most common word was probably "king"
- Georg Gotefend knew that later inscription started with "kings name great king, king of kings, son of kings father the king" and started guessing Persian kings
Prehistory vs History
- A divide driven by what we (can) know, not by large historical events
- The invention of writing is a small gradual process (3200 BCE is one date)
- The people either side of writing ...