New inscription found near tomb of Darius the Great

BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Trilingual Inscription Surfaces Near Darius the Great’s Tomb (Megan Sauter). It pertains to a royal official whose name is lost. It is of some philological interest for Elamite, Old Persian, and Babylonian Akkadian.

As the article notes, the most famous trilingual inscription from Iran is the Behistun inscription, which (rather like the Rosetta Stone for Egyptian) was key to the decipherment of Akkadian. Past posts on it are here, here, here, here, and here.

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