Word: hinching
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Dates: during 1889-1889
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...various signs were syllables and not letters. From this discovery the work went rapidly forward. In 1857 so much had been written on the subject that the Royal Asiatic Society of London appointed a committee of scholars to test the accuracy of the translations. The committee submitted to Rawlinson, Hinch, and Fox Talbot copies of a long passage of writting from one of the old Assyrian kings. Independent translations were to be made and returned in sealed packages to the committee. These translations showed such a large amount of agreement that there has never since been reason to doubt...