Major General Sir H. C. Rawling KCB - Henry Creswicke Rawling - a British army officer and Orientalist who deciphered the Old Persian portion of the trilingual cuneiform inscription of Darius I the Great at Bisitun, Iran. Cuneiform is the same writing system, which was used on the clay, tablets and inscriptions used by the ancient inhabitants of Mesopotamia. His success provided the key to the deciphering, by himself and others, of Mesopotamian cuneiform script. ?TopFoto