Mount Behistun


Mount Bisotoun is a mountain of the Zagros Mountains range, located in Kermanshah Province, western Iran. It is located west of Tehran.

Cultural history

Mount Bisotoun, aka Bīsitūn, 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.

Legends

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.