Mount Behistun

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.

Darius I inscribed the flat rock face in three languages c. 500 BC, known as the Behistun Inscription.

[1] A legend began around Mount Bisotoun, as written about by the Persian poet Nezami about a man named Farhad, who was a lover of Shirin.

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Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great
Shirin on horseback visiting Farhad on Mount Bisotun, who is shown carving out the mountain. Created in 19th-century Qajar Iran