Dinesh's photos with the keyword: Traveller

Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815), the first man to draw accurately the cuneiform inscriptions at Persepolis. Niebuhr was an indefatigable traveller and scholar, who returned alone from India to Denmark, via Persepolis. He published his first drawings in 1772. Careful study enabled him to show that there were three different cuneiform scripts at Persepolis