Decipherment of Old Persian

Decipherment of Old Persian(heritageinstitute.com)

12 points by pallas_athena 2 years ago | 4 comments

pvg 2 years ago |

Does anyone know much about this author/site? It looks like some sort of Zoroastrian/Zoroastrianism-enthusiast and let's call it 'independent researcher'. There doesn't appear to be much in the way of external references to this voluminous work and some of it seems a little tendentious or at least, at odds with current consensus.

Sites like this are one of the joys of the internet but it's usually easier to figure out the angle.

jagaerglad 2 years ago | |

Can't say much about the linked page but one could read the article[0] about the same topic on Encyclopedia Iranica, which is a better source since it's compiled and edited by scholars in history, linguistics, iranian studies etc. Haven't read them myself but they both mention the epigraphist Grotenfrend at least

[0]: https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/epigraphy-i

retrac 2 years ago | | |

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages: https://www.cambridge.org/ca/universitypress/subjects/langua... (available elsewhere for less...) also has a good chapter on Old Persian.

The chapter on Avestan is also relevant and interesting.

readthenotes1 2 years ago |

It sounds like several people chipped away at the inscriptions until a genius did it without knowledge of the previous work?