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behistun

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Be⋅his⋅tun

  [bey-hi-stoon]
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–noun
a ruined town in W Iran: site of a cliff that bears on its face a cuneiform inscription in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian that provided a key for the decipherment of cuneiform in other languages.
Also, Bisitun, Bisutun.
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