The Behistun Inscription

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Illustration

Ibolya Horvath
by dynamosquito
published on 18 May 2018

Darius I's (c. 550-486 BCE) trilingual inscription, in Akkadian or Babylonian, Elamite, and old Persian, carved on the Behistun rock relief from the village of the same name.

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