In 1826 the French Government sent the young scholar Friedrich Schulz to the Lake Van area in eastern Asia Minor to record the unusual cuneiform inscriptions seen by travellers there. Sadly, before Schulz could return to Europe he was murdered (1829) by a Kurdish chief, whose guest he had been. But miraculously his papers were recovered. This is their publication from Journal Asiatique (1840), 138 .pdf pages including Schulz' French description of the inscriptions and their locales, plus 72 pages of the actual Urartian inscriptions themselves in the young man's accurate pen and ink transcriptions. Urartian cuneiform was subsequently deciphered by the scholars Hincks and Sayce in the 1880s. Excerpted from Journal Asiatique and uploaded to Internet Archive by user Robert Bedrosian.