While the Behistun Inscription is in Iran, not Armenia, it remains a pilgrimage site for Armenian historians. From Yerevan, one would travel via Tabriz to Kermanshah. The site is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (2006).
The cliff keeps both truths.
Historians often say that "Armenia enters history" with the Behistun Inscription. While Urartian texts refer to the land, they do not call it Armenia. The Greek historian Hecataeus of Miletus (c. 550–476 BCE) also mentions Armenians, but his work survives only in fragments. The Behistun text is . It gives us the earliest fixed date in Armenian history: the rebellion and pacification of Armenia in the second year of Darius the Great. behistunskaa nadpis- armenia