🏛️ Bisotun

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The Behistun inscription is a multilingual Achaemenid royal inscription and large rock relief on a cliff at Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, established by Darius the Great. It was important to the decipherment of cuneiform, as it is the longest known trilingual cuneiform inscription, written in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian.

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Bisotun is a cultural World Heritage site in Iran (Islamic Republic of), in Asia. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Bisotun was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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