Resumen de Arqueología e imperio: Un esbozo de Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (1810-1895)
This article deals with the life and discoveries of Sir Henry C. Rawlinson (1810-1895) in the field of Middle East Archaeology and decipherment of cuneiform writing. It is a biographical sketch, based on letters and memories of him. Besides his archaecological exploits, his activities as a diplomatist in Baghdad, and his relationship with The British Museum and Austen Henry Layard, the famous discoverer of Nineveh, are treated, in the context of the birth of Assyriology as a science in the Nineteenth Century.
