Source recordAncient text
Behistun Inscription
Darius I of Persia · c. 520 BCE · Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian
Ancient text
Behistun Inscription
Darius I of Persia
Darius I's trilingual account of his seizure of power, carved on a cliff at Bisotun in western Iran, which repeatedly credits his success to 'the favor of Ahuramazda'; its decipherment in the nineteenth century opened cuneiform to modern scholarship.
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Darius I's trilingual account of his seizure of power, carved on a cliff at Bisotun in western Iran, which repeatedly credits his success to 'the favor of Ahuramazda'; its decipherment in the nineteenth century opened cuneiform to modern scholarship.
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