Bistoon Inscription

Happy to visit another UNESCO registered site, this time in Kermanshah. Behistun multilingual inscription at mount Bistun was written in Old Persian, Elamite, and the Babylonian. highly recommended.

Bisotun is located near Kermanshah, west of Iran and has couple of things remain prehistoric times to the Median, Ashaemenid, Sassanian and Ilkhanid periods. The proncipal monument of this archaeological site is wonderful bas-relief and cuneiform inscription ordered by Darius the Great. The bas-relief portrays Darius holding a bow. Also the inscription written in three languages which is amazing.

A must see sit if you go to Kermanshah. An old highway of the old world with breath taking tablets carved in the mountain.

In 1835 Sir Henry Rawlinson, an officer in the East India Company and an expert in the Persian language, was assigned to a post in Iran and became interested in something known as the Behistun Inscription. Located in the Iranian desert, the inscription was a great deal of writing on a huge mountain of rock, much of which was inaccessible. It contains the same story in three different cuneiform script languages: Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian. The story, in part an autobiography, is that of King Darius, who reigned in Persia around 500 BC.

The inscription is about 50 feet high and 80 feet wide, but it is located more than 300 feet off the ground on an almost sheer cliff.

Bīsitūn, also spelled Bīsotūn, historically Behistun, village and precipitous rock situated at the foot of the Zagros Mountains in the Kermanshah region of Iran. In ancient times Bīsitūn was on the old road from Ecbatana, capital of ancient Media, to Babylon, and it was on that scarp that the Achaemenid king Darius I the Great (reigned 522–486 bc) placed his famous trilingual inscription, the decipherment of which provided an important key for the study of the cuneiform script. The inscription and the accompanying bas-relief were carved in a difficult, though not inaccessible, rock face. Written in Babylonian, Old Persian, and Elamite, the inscription records the way in which Darius, after the death of Cambyses II (reigned 529–522 bc), killed the usurper Gaumata, defeated the rebels, and assumed the throne. The organization of the Persian territories into satrapies or provinces is also recorded.

Dariush inscription is one of the Unesco's heritage sites located in Bisotun County, 30 km far from Kermanshah.

Although the Bisotun inscription is not accessible and hard to visit, you can use monoculars (spotting scope) to see details at very cheap price.

Great Rock relives and inscriptions. the translation of inscriptions are also available there. be sure to read them. they are interesting.

As most have mentioned, the main inscription is obscured by scaffolding. What wasn't mentioned is that the scaffolding was erected almost two decades ago and remains idle and dilapidated. Workers and craftsmen built this to remain visible over two millenia later only to be hidden by an Iranian policy of indifference. Shame on Iran for not doing more. This belongs to all of humanity and should not be left to the theocratic agenda of this government.

It was on reconstruction, but place is good

Darian I. is the most famous King of Persia. That's why his face and statues are everywhere to see in Iran 🇮🇷. This place has its own beauty ... 😊

Wow!Ancient Persian civilization, Zoroastrianism. Good thinking, good speech, good behavior...
Biston was first called Baghistan, which was a combination of the two words bagh, meaning gods and the suffix of place. The name was first mentioned in the book by the Greek author Diodorus Ciculus, who described the inscription as the work of the Assyrian goddess Semiramis and described it as a gift to Ahura the Great Mazda. Bostan and Biston are other letters of this historical monument.

In the historical site of Biston, there are valuable works in this collection, which include: the role and inscription of Darius the Achaemenid, the statue of Hercules, the inscription and the role of Goodarz, Farhad Tarash, the Parthian building, the capitals of the Sassanid period, the Sassanid wall, the role of the Parthian corpse, the Sassanid building. Ilkhani Caravanserai, Naderi Hill, Khosrow Bridge, Shah Abbasi Caravanserai, endowment letter of Sheikh Ali Khan Zanganeh, the role of Mehrdad II, Islamic inscriptions, Shekarchi Cave, Sefeh and the material wall, Safavid Bridge, Sassanid building, etc. Among these works, the role and inscription of Darius the Achaemenid are the most important.

One of the most important historical sites in Iran with a few sculptures and wall scripts form the achmanids till Sasanian era.

The Behistun Inscription is an engraving located on the cliff of Mount Behistun (said to have had the meaning of ‘place where the gods dwell’ in antiquity). This inscription was written in three languages, and is accompanied by a large rock relief. The Behistun Inscription is for the field of Assyriology what the Rosetta Stone is for Egyptology. Apart from aiding the decipherment of the cuneiform script, another importance of the Behistun Inscription is that it is the only known monumental text created by the Achaemenids that documents a specific historical event.

The Behistun Inscription is located on Mount Behistun, about 60 m (196 ft) above the plain, in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah. The inscription has been measured to be about 15 m (49 ft) in height and 25 m (82 ft) in width, and was created by the Achaemenid king, Darius I in 521 BC. The inscription may be divided into four separate parts. The first of these is a large relief in which various figures are represented, the most prominent being Darius himself. The king is shown with a bow in his hand, a sign of his sovereignty.

You feel like an Egytpian 😎

It's amazing historical site. You should go there to feel real atmosphere

The Bisotun inscription in the "Silk Road" built. I invite all people of the world to see this place.

Fabulous Ancient World Heritage, So Incredible…

A masterpiece. One of the most exciting thing I ever seen

The Best and the biggest Inscription شکوه و جلال هخامنشیا