The Rock

.

Mount Behistun [Iran]: photo by Ali Esfandian, 2 August 2010

Again, and again

to return

to the rock

face, asking

the same

questions

of the mute

stone

oracle. How

long, then? And

if not

now, when?

Monument to Darius I the Great at Behistun: photo by Patrick C, May 2009



Darius I The Great's inscription, Mount Behistun: photo by Aryobarzan, 15 October 2010



Farahavar at Mount Behistun: photo by Patrick C, May 2009



Mount Behistun: route of ascent to the inscription: photo by KendallKDown, 1969; image by Tambo, 23 May 2011



Farhad Tarash, at the foot of Mount Behistun: photo by Coffeetalkh, 10 July 2010



Achaemenid (Persian) Empire, c. 500 BC: map by William R. Shepherd, 1923; image by Giro720, 19 September 2005 (U. of Texas Libraries)