Behistun inscription

Quality:

Behistun inscription - inscription in Bisotun, Iranian national heritage site. Article “Behistun inscription” in English Wikipedia has 65.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 31 references and 14 sections.

This article has the best quality in Malay Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Behistun inscription” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Behistun inscription”, its content was written by 309 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1482 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1126 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5828 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1212 in December 2001
• Global: #1301 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9833 in August 2023
• Global: #15716 in August 2023

There are 49 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Malay (ms) Inskripsi Behistun		95.9116
2	English (en) Behistun inscription		65.5949
3	Persian (fa) سنگ‌نوشته بیستون		58.6564
4	Chinese (zh) 贝希斯敦铭文		46.2772
5	Slovenian (sl) Behistunski napis		43.6561
6	Turkish (tr) Behistun Yazıtı		42.5551
7	Italian (it) Iscrizioni di Bisotun		41.7145
8	Galician (gl) Inscrición de Behistún		39.6791
9	Croatian (hr) Behistunski natpisi		35.4666
10	German (de) Behistun-Inschrift		33.8953

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Behistun inscription		2 141 066
2	Persian (fa) سنگ‌نوشته بیستون		867 123
3	Russian (ru) Бехистунская надпись		454 327
4	Spanish (es) Inscripción de Behistún		255 016
5	Japanese (ja) ベヒストゥン碑文		236 096
6	German (de) Behistun-Inschrift		167 455
7	French (fr) Inscription de Behistun		129 854
8	Italian (it) Iscrizioni di Bisotun		89 036
9	Portuguese (pt) Inscrição de Beistum		76 155
10	Chinese (zh) 贝希斯敦铭文		73 974

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Behistun inscription		9 531
2	Persian (fa) سنگ‌نوشته بیستون		4 415
3	Russian (ru) Бехистунская надпись		1 528
4	Japanese (ja) ベヒストゥン碑文		1 148
5	Spanish (es) Inscripción de Behistún		832
6	German (de) Behistun-Inschrift		607
7	Chinese (zh) 贝希斯敦铭文		548
8	French (fr) Inscription de Behistun		495
9	Turkish (tr) Behistun Yazıtı		382
10	Italian (it) Iscrizioni di Bisotun		326

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Behistun inscription		309
2	Persian (fa) سنگ‌نوشته بیستون		136
3	French (fr) Inscription de Behistun		109
4	German (de) Behistun-Inschrift		103
5	Russian (ru) Бехистунская надпись		77
6	Italian (it) Iscrizioni di Bisotun		58
7	Dutch (nl) Behistuninscriptie		49
8	Spanish (es) Inscripción de Behistún		47
9	Hebrew (he) כתובת ביסותון		42
10	Danish (da) Bisutun-inskriptionerne		39

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Behistun inscription		6
2	Persian (fa) سنگ‌نوشته بیستون		4
3	Arabic (ar) نقش بيستون		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Bisütun kitabəsi		1
5	Basque (eu) Behistungo inskripzioa		1
6	Hebrew (he) כתובת ביסותון		1
7	Belarusian (be) Бехістунскі надпіс		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Бехистунски надпис		0
9	Catalan (ca) Inscripció de Behistun		0
10	Czech (cs) Behistunský nápis		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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