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Mount Bisotoun
Mount Bisotoun (or Behistun and Bisotun) is a mountain of the Zagros Mountains range, located in Kermanshah Province, western Iran. It is located 525 kilometers (326 mi) west of Tehran.
Mount Bisotoun (or Behistun and Bisotun) is a mountain of the Zagros Mountains range, located in Kermanshah Province, western Iran. It is located 525...
multilingual Achaemenid royal inscription and large rock relief on a cliff at MountBehistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western...
Statue of Hercules in Behistun (or Statue of Heracles/Herakles in Bisotun, Persian: تندیس هرکول) is located on MountBehistun, Iran. It was discovered...
Babylon, and Egypt. He had an inscription carved upon a cliff-face of MountBehistun to record his conquests, which would later become important evidence...
Achaemenid traditions, rock-relief images of Arsacid rulers were carved at MountBehistun, where Darius I of Persia (r. 522–486 BC) made royal inscriptions. Moreover...
the Seleucid king Demetrius III Eucaerus (r. 96–87 BC) in 87 BC. At MountBehistun in western Iran, there is a rock relief which depicts four figures paying...
Mithridates II in 91 BC, Gotarzes was proclaimed king at Babylon. At MountBehistun in western Iran, there is a rock relief which depicts four figures paying...
County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran Farhād Tarāsh – a rockface on MountBehistun, Iran Farkhad Dam - hydroelectric plant at Tajikistan/Uzbekistan border...
the Behistun inscription A picture of MountBehistun. Note the size of the climbers compared to the size of the mountain A panorama of the Behistun inscription...
"the god's place or land") is a multi-lingual inscription located on MountBehistun. The inscription includes three versions of the same text, written in...
vicinity of Borujerd; from Nahavand the Gamasab river flows westwards to MountBehistun. Given Nahavand's location, it was the site of several battles, and...
during a campaign of 520 to 518 BC where, according to his inscription at Behistun, he conquered the Massagetae/Sakā tigraxaudā, captured their king Skunxa...
was one of the figures depicted on the rock relief of Gotarzes I at MountBehistun. Orodes' mother may have been the Armenian queen Ariazate, who was a...
name is listed variously in the historical sources. In Darius the Great's Behistun inscription, his Persian name is Bardiya or Bardia. Herodotus calls him...
reference to the people and the country dates back to the 6th century BC Behistun Inscription, followed by several Greek fragments and books. The earliest...
Anubanini rock relief Anubanini relief Behistun relief The Anubanini petroglyph, also called Sar-e Pol-e Zohab II or Sarpol-i Zohab relief, is a rock relief...
contemporary Assyrian and Babylonian texts, as well as the Persian inscription of Behistun, works by later Greek authors such as Herodotus and Ctesias, and some biblical...
Cyrus II, also known as Cyrus the Great, who founded the empire. The later Behistun Inscription, written by Darius the Great, claims that Teispes was the son...
Mount Tymphe, Northern Pindus Mountains. Pelagones - They lived in Pelagonia. Talares - They lived on Mount Pindus and in the neighborhood of Mount Tomarus...
Eshkaft-e Salman in southwest Iran, and continues under the Assyrians. The Behistun relief and inscription, made around 500 BC for Darius the Great, is on...
other, named Skunkha, was taken captive and is visible on the relief at Behistun. (It is possible that Darius created a new tribe from several earlier tribes...
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