History Challenge & Journal

[pharvey]

Clearer version of the 3rd image (Clue only): -

r1.jpg (48.67 KiB) Viewed 296 times

[dtaai-maai]

I don't suppose it's in the Natural History Museum...?

[pharvey]

I don't suppose it's in the Natural History Museum...?

I hope not - or my answer is buggered......

[dtaai-maai]

They called me 'cow-head', I know not why,
Fleet of foot and blue of eye.
I helped my King from west to east
And yet to some I was a beast;
A city was named after me,
Near झेलम in Punjabi.


Who was I?

[dtaai-maai]

Would that writing be Welsh, by any chance?

[pharvey]

Now, now .....No, not that ''close to home''. Writing is certainly the point though.......

[PeteC]

My guess it's a book by the famous Botanist, Robert Brown, Scottish. Don't know about where it's kept though. Pete

[pharvey]

My guess it's a book by the famous Botanist, Robert Brown, Scottish. Don't know about where it's kept though. Pete

Certainly a book Pete, but unfortunately you're well wide of the mark. Identify the 3rd pic/clue..... and you'll stand more of a chance.

[EDIT] Apologies... and Big ones Just to clarify, this is classed as a manuscript, certainly need to make things clear with you lot!!

[Nereus]

The 3rd picture looks like an ancient clay tablet. The other pictures may be a translation, and it MAY concern cannabis. The writing is is not Cuneiform, but writing about Cannabis goes back a long way.

[pharvey]

The 3rd picture looks like an ancient clay tablet. The other pictures may be a translation, and it MAY concern cannabis. The writing is is not Cuneiform, but writing about Cannabis goes back a long way.

The 3rd pic is certainly a tablet - this one was in ''Granodiorite'', an intrusive igneous rock similar to granite........ not that really helps !! Look at what this (3rd pic) was used for as the clue.

[Jimbob]

clue 3 is the rossetta stone

[pharvey]

clue 3 is the rossetta stone

Fair shout Jimbob - spot on!

As I said, certainly not directly connected, but possibly a clue to what the manuscript is.

[sandman67]

Picture 3 is the world famous Rosetta Stone, kept in the British Museum

The picture of the book looks like a medieval book of flora or possibly a Herbal (a book of plants in a monks medicinal garden). I know they (the British Museum) have two of these that are famous - St Francis of Assissi s Herbal and a book of flora by Giovanni Machion. The one in the picture looks more like something St Francis would produce.

[sandman67]

DMs riddle seems to contain the Hindi for Jhelum

[dtaai-maai]

Jhelum indeed (though I thought the language was Punjabi)

khun harvey krap - was the book used to translate a newly discovered language...?