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Achaemenid inscriptions

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Behistun Inscription

inscription in Bisotun, Iranian national heritage site

ancient cylinder covered with Akkadian cuneiform script

Ganjnameh Tourist Resort Complex

Ganjnameh () is located 12 km southwest of Hamadan (ancient Ecbatana) in western Iran, at an altitude of meters across Mount Alvand. The site is home to two trilingual Achaemenid royal inscriptions. The inscription on the upper left was created on the order of Achaemenid King Darius the Great (522–486 BC) and the one on the right by his son King Xerxes the Great (486–465 BC).

Xerxes’s inscription

cuneiform inscription near Lake Van, present-day Turkey

Jar of Xerxes I

1857 archaeological discovery

Darius the Great's Suez Inscriptions

Achaemenid inscriptions in Egypt

DNa inscription

ancient inscription on Darius the Great's tomb

Egyptian alabaster jar

Achaemenid inscription in the Kharg Island

Inscription on Kharg Island, Iran