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Mount Bisotoun, aka Bīsitūn (referring to the mountain and the nearby village), is a mountain with a rock precipice in the Zagros Mountains in Kermanshah, Iran. Darius I inscribed the flat rock face in three languages c. 500 BC , known as the Behistun Inscription .
The Behistun Inscription (also Bisotun, Bisitun or Bisutun; Persian: بیستون, Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning "the place of god") is a multilingual Achaemenid royal 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.
Mount Bi-Sutoun by Eugène Flandin. The town is at the foot of Bisotun Mountain, the flank of which is the location of an important historical site. The imperial road from Ekbatana to Babylon passed at the foot of the mountain. On the rocky slopes king Darius I left the Behistun Inscription. From the Seleucid epoch there is a Herakles statue.
A viral video showing a group of young men fleeing the initial site of the massive Palisades fire in Los Angeles, USA, has fueled intense online speculation and conspiracy theories. The blaze ...
Daimonji Hidari Daimonji without fire. Gozan no Okuribi (五山送り火, roughly "The Five Mountainous Send-Off Fires"), more commonly known as Daimonji (大文字, roughly "big letter"), is a festival in Kyoto, Japan. It is the culmination of the Obon festival on August 16, in which five giant bonfires are lit on mountains surrounding the city.
The place where she lived was called Mount Chimaera. [3] An Irish-born British naval officer named Francis Beaufort surveyed the region in 1811 and concluded that Yanartaş was the fabled mountain, citing the ancient Roman writer Pliny, who had made the same claim.
Get weather and fire alerts via text: Sign up to get current wildfire updates by location. Photos capture fire damage left in Malibu. Flames from the Palisades Fire burn a structure on January 8 ...
After dropping his kids off at school around 8:15 a.m. on the day the Palisades fire started, Darrin Hurwitz drove to the area to hike. He did a five-mile loop that took him up above Skull Rock ...