The Old Persian text contains 414 lines in five columns the Elamite text includes 593 lines in eight columns, and the Babylonian text is in 112 lines. The inscription is approximately 15В m (49В ft) high by 25В m (82В ft) wide and 100В m (330В ft) up a limestone cliff from an ancient road connecting the capitals of Babylonia and Media ( Babylon and Ecbatana, respectively). Darius the Great proclaimed himself victorious in all battles during the period of upheaval, attributing his success to the 'grace of Ahura Mazda'. The inscription states in detail that the rebellions, which had followed the death of Cambyses II, were orchestrated by several impostors and their co-conspirators in various cities throughout the empire, each of whom falsely proclaimed himself king during the upheaval following Cambyses II's death. Later in the inscription, Darius provides a lengthy sequence of events following the death of Cambyses II in which he fought nineteen battles in a period of one year (ending in December 521 BC) to put down multiple rebellions throughout the Persian Empire. The inscription is to cuneiform script what the Rosetta Stone is to Egyptian hieroglyphs: the document most crucial in the deciphering of a previously lost writing system.ДЄuthored by Darius the Great sometime between his coronation as king of the Persian Empire in the summer of 522 BC and his death in autumn of 486 BC, the inscription begins with a brief autobiography of Darius, including his ancestry and lineage. It was crucial to the decipherment of cuneiform script as the inscription includes three versions of the same text, written in three different cuneiform script languages: Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian (a variety of Akkadian). The Behistun Inscription (also Bisotun, Bistun or Bisutun Persian: ШЁЫЊШіШЄЩ€Щ†, Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning 'the place of god') is a multilingual inscription and large rock relief on a cliff at Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, established by Darius the Great ( r.В 522вЂ“486В BC).

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