I have read with very keen interest the wonderful history of the decipherment of the cuneiform writing, and I happen to recollect one or two of the main facts that seemed to me to be worth remembering.
"The Mystery of 31 New Inn"
R. Austin Freeman
"It will amuse you for quite a long while and perhaps the results may meet the expenses of decipherment, if they are worth publishing.
"The Virgin of the Sun"
H. R. Haggard
Savants tell us, that ages ago, in the dim dawn, primeval rain drops made their pattering print, and left it to harden on the stone pages, awaiting decipherment by human eyes and human brains, not yet "Born of the brainless Nature, Who knew not that which she bore."
"At the Mercy of Tiberius"
August Evans Wilson