THE MESOPOTAMIAN RIDDLE: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing

For three millennia, cuneiform script would record the military conquests, scientific discoveries, and epic literature of Sumer, Assyria, and Babylon and of Persia's mighty Achaemenid Empire. But then, the meaning of the characters was lost. Follow three free-spirited Victorians on a 20 year quest to decipher the oldest writing in the world.