MOUNT BISOTOUN.

Mount Bisotoun is a mountain of the Zagros Mountains range, located in Ker'Man'Shah Province of Western Iran. The Zagros Mountains is long mountain range in Iran, Iraq, and South Eastern Turkey.
Ker'Man'Shah is located in the middle of the Western part of Iran. The city is built on the slopes of Mount Sefid Kooh. City's elevation average is about 1,350 meters above sea level. The distance between Ker'Man'Shah and Teh'Eran is 525 km. It is the trade center of rich agricultural region that produces grain, rice, vegetables, fruits, and oilseeds, and there are many industrial centers, oil and sugar refineries, and cement, textile, and flour factories, etc.
Many caves with Paleo'Lithic remains have been surveyed or excavated there. The oldest prehistoric village in the Middle East dating back to 9,800 BC was discovered in Sah'Neh, in West Ker'Man'Sheh.
Mount Bisotoun is well known for the inscription and rock relief in which the great Acha'Emen'Ian King, Darius the Great, had the narrative of his exploits carved around 500 BC.
The Acha'Emen'Id Empire (550-330BC), also called the First Persian Empire, was an empire based in Western Asia, founded by Cyrus the Great. Darius I ruled the empire at its peak, when it included much of West Asia, the Caucasos (region at the border of Europe and Asia between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea), part of the Balkans (Thrace-Macedonia and Paeonia), most of the Black Sea coastal regions, parts of the North Caucasus (between the Sea of Azov and Black Sea on the West and Caspian Sea on the East), Central Asia, as far as the Indus Valley in the far East and portions of North and North East Africa including Egypt (Mud'Raya), Eastern Libya and coastal Sudan.
It was larger than any previous empire in history, spanning 5.5 million sq km. Darius organized the empire by dividing it into provinces, incorporating various peoples of different origins and faiths. Also it is notable for its successful model of a centralized and unified, bureaucratic administration through governors [satraps] under the King of Kings, for building infrastructure such as road systems and a postal system, the use of Aramaic as an official language across its territories, and the development of civil services and a large professional army. He also introduced standard weights and measures and organized a new uniform monetary system. The empire's successes inspired similar systems in later empires. Darius also worked on construction projects throughout the empire, focusing on Susa (lower Zagros, East of the Tigris, between Kar'Kheh and Dez rivers, Pas'Argad'Ae, Perse'Polis, Babyl'On, and Egypt.
Darius is mentioned in the Scriptural Books of Hagg'Ai, Zechar'Iah, and Ez'Ra-Neh'Em'Iah.
Darius the Great's inscription at Mount Bisotun, which dates to 522 BC, lies some 1300 meters high in the Mountains, and counts as one of the most famous sites in Near Eastern archaeology. The site has attracted visitors for centuries.
The Behistun inscription is to Old Persian cuneiform what the Roseta Stone is to Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The trilingual inscription (in Old Persian, Elamite and Akkadian) was crucial in the decipherment of the script. The relief above the inscription depicts Darius facing 9 rebels who objected to his crowning. At the king's feet lies Gaumata, a Magian priest from Media, and impostor of Bardiya, the younger son of Cyrus the Great. The location of this important historical document is not coincidental : Gaumata was a Medean and in Acha'Emen'Id times Behistun lay on the Medea-Parsa highway.
The Behistun is also notable for 3 reliefs at the foot of the hill that date from the Parth'Ian era. Among them is a Hellenistic-era depiction of the divinity Bah'Ram as the Greek hero Hercules, who reclines with a goblet in his hand, a club at his feet and a lion-skin beneath him.