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Behistun Inscription

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Authored by Darius the Great and is the Rosetta stone for Cuneiform.  

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Modern day picture of the inscription

The Behistun Inscription (also Bistun or Bisutun), (Persian: بیستون, Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning "the place of god") is a multi-lingual inscription located on Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran.

References

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behistun Inscription
  • Page 42 - Fagan. B.M., 2005, A Brief History of Archawilogy: Classical Times to the Twenty-First Century: Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 278p.
  • Page 54 - Hunt, P., 2007, Ten Discoveries that Rewrote History: Penguin, New York, 226p.
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