- The
Behistun Inscription (also Bisotun,
Bisitun or Bisutun; Persian: بیستون, Old Persian: Bagastana,
meaning "the
place of god") is a
multilingual Achaemenid...
-
Mount Bisotoun (or
Behistun and Bisotun) is a
mountain of the
Zagros Mountains range,
located in
Kermanshah Province,
western Iran. It is
located 525 kilometers...
-
Statue of
Hercules in
Behistun (or
Statue of Heracles/Herakles in Bisotun, Persian: تندیس هرکول) is
located on
Mount Behistun, Iran. It was discovered...
- name is
listed variously in the
historical sources. In
Darius the Great's
Behistun inscription, his
Persian name is
Bardiya or Bardia.
Herodotus calls him...
- 𒀀𒄩𒈠𒉌𒅖𒀪 (A-ḫa-ma-ni-iš-ʾ) in the non-contemporaneous
trilingual Behistun Inscription of
Darius I. The Old
Persian proper name is
traditionally derived...
- The
Behistun papyrus,
formally known as
Berlin Papyrus P. 13447, is an Aramaic-Egyptian
fragmentary partial copy of the
Behistun inscription, and one of...
- with the much
older Behistun inscription and rock relief,
across the
ancient road
running between Behistun mountain and
Behistun lake. The
palace has...
- in
Kermanshah in
western Iran, near the
great cuneiform inscription at
Behistun,
written in Old Persian, Elamite, and
Babylonian (a
later form of Akkadian)...
- Babylon, and Egypt. He had an
inscription carved upon a cliff-face of
Mount Behistun to
record his conquests,
which would later become important evidence of...
- with the most
important attestation by far
being the
contents of the
Behistun Inscription (dated to 525 BCE). In 2007,
research into the vast ****polis...
