The Behistun Inscription is a large rock relief on a cliff at Mount Behistun near the city of Kermanshah, Iran. Authored by Darius the Great sometime between 522 BC and 486 BC, the inscription includes a brief autobiography and victorious battle history. The text appears in three cuneiform script languages: Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian. Illustration from Edward Clodd's The Story of the Alphabet, 1900. Colorized.

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