The registration of Behistun.

 

The registration of Behistun was an inscription of great size, measuring 7.6 by 15.24 meters. Was located at an elevation of 106.68 meters, on the precipice of the Zagros Mountains, southwest of Hamadan, Persia. Also had words in three languages, all used by the ancients, but unknown to modern scholars. Henry C. Rawlinson, an English military, feeling challenged to decipher these languages so strange, yet refined, performed his work climbed on a ledge 36 and 46 centimeters. located below, or sitting in a suspended cage. After four years of dangerous work could make a complete copy of the inscriptions. Eighteen years later, he had completely deciphered the three languages: Old Persian cuneiform, the Elamite (susancheio), and Babylonian cuneiform. With these three keys, Rawlinson and other scholars have deciphered the precious secrets of lost civilizations of Assyria. Babylon and Persia, nations whose peoples have played important roles in the development of the great episodes of the Bible.

The use of these languages in the correspondence and diplomatic exchange was revealed in 1887, when a Bedouin woman in search of fertile land for your garden, dug in Promontory Teli el-Amama, where, on the east bank of the Nile, lay the ruins that once outside the beautiful city of dreams of Pharaoh Akhenaten. The woman found clay tablets with inscriptions sold them for fifty cents of the U.S. dollar. The missionary had ChaunéyMurch news of the finding and informed the Egyptian authorities. After a thorough examination, it was proven that those tablets were official diplomatic records of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during the reigns of Amenhotep III (1413 to 1376 BC.) And his son and successor, Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten, 1375 to 1358 BC). Among the records were official communications of the monarchs of Babylon, Mitanni and other Asian countries; however, most were written by the governors of districts in various cities of Palestine, Phoenicia and southern Syria letters (approximately 150 of them were from Palestine itself).

The tablets of Teli el-Amarna have been very important in biblical research, so much so that many consider the most important discovery ever made in Egypt. The fact that most of these tablets itself be written in Babylonian cuneiform, despite being from different countries, indicates that the Babylonian cuneiform writing system was understood by almost all people in the Bible lands during this time, and perhaps much earlier and after it. Biblical characters could talk without difficulty with various people, as they moved from one country to another, as the Bible indicates.

The interest in archaeological discoveries had intensified at the time the tablets were found, and from that date several calls were made to more topographical investigations and excavations in small mounds over the cities were held. There was an immediate response from England, Germany, France, the United States and other countries. Governments, universities, museums and influential people financed the expeditions, and the work continued under the direction of competent men and women who have discovered how the ruins of ancient civilizations agree with what the Bible and other ancient literary sources written about them .

Today, after 200 years of topographical and archaeological investigations, it can be said that the great army of scholars have taken the threads of primitive life hidden under mounds that hid thousands of ancient cities, and they wove a panel agrees almost perfectly with the lives and the events surrounding the characters mentioned in the Bible.

Archaeology has brought the light of our day thousands of "external" evidence to support the stories of Scripture.