Word: behistun
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...fact that he was renowned as a lawgiver and statesman, most details of his life and that of the Achaemenian dynasty -which ruled ancient Persia for two centuries-are shrouded in the mists of the past. The great bas-reliefs that Darius ordered carved into a cliffside in Behistun, some 150 miles to the north of Susa, for instance, tell of his accession to the throne and his triumph over enemies. But they are too fragmentary to offer a full historical record...
High Key. On a steeple jack's scaffolding set against the vertical face of Mt. Behistun, in Persia, the University of Chicago's Dr. George G. Cameron, an Elamitist (authority on the ancient state of Elam), would soon be busy with his research. There, some 2,500 years ago, King Darius of Persia had his portrait carved along with ten of his liquidated enemies. Long inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian tell how Darius attributed his success up to this point (later his armies were soundly whipped by the Greeks at Marathon) to the favor...
...first discoveries in Persian Cuneiform, at the beginning of the century, by Grotefend, Lessen, Rawlinson and others, and the gradual decipherment of the second and third columns of the trilingual inscription of Behistun - the Median and Assyrian...
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