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'''[[Behistun InscriptiThe [[Parthenon]]'''
[[Iimage:BehistunInscriptionSketch.jpg|thumb|150px|The Behistun Inscription is illustrated by life-sized carved images of King Darius with other figures in attendance.ac.parthenon5.jpg|thumb|150px|The Parthenon seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west]]
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The '''Behistun Inscription''' (also '''Bisitun''' or '''Bisutun''', &#1576;&#1740;&#1587;&#1Parthenon''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: &#928;&#945;&#961;&#952;&#949;&#9578;&#1608;&#1606; in [[Persian language|modern Persian]]) is to [[Cuneiform (script)|cuneiform]] what the [[Rosetta Stone]] is to [[Egyptian hieroglyph]]s: the document most crucial in the [[decipherment]] of a previously lost [[writing system|script]]. It is located in the [[Kermanshah Province]] of [[Iran]].

The inscription includes three vers974;&#957;) is the most famous surviving building of [[Ancient Greece]] and one of the most famous buildings in the world. The building has stood atop the [[Acropolis of Athens]] for nearly 2,500 years and was built to give thanks to [[Athena]], the city's [[patron]] [[goddess]], for the salvations of the same text, written in three different scripts and languages: [[Old Persian language|Old Persian]], [[Elamite language|Elamite]], and [[Babylonian language|Babylonian]].  A British army officer, [[Sir Henry Rawlinson]], had the inscription transcribed in two parts, in [[1835]] and [[1843]]. Rawlinson was able to translate the Old Persian cuneiform text in [[1838]], and the Elamite and Babylonian texts were translated by Rawlinson and others after 1843. Babylonian was a later form of [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]]: both are [[Semitic languages[[Athens]] and [[Greece]] in the [[Persian Wars]]. The building was officially called the '''Temple of Athena the Virgin''', and its popular name derives from the Greek word ''&#960;&#945;&#961;&#952;&#941;&#957;&#959;&#962;'' (parthenos), a virgin.

The Parthenon replaced an older [[temple]] which had been destroyed by the [[Iran|Persians]]. As well as being a temple, the Parthenon was used as a treasury, and was the location of the treasury of the [[Delian League]], which later became the [[Athenian Empire]].
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