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What is the significance of Naqsh-I-Rushtam?
Apart from it being the royal burial place of the kings?
 

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Dont know if its too late now, but this should be enough:

Naqsi-i Rushtan
 archaeological site in Iran, best known for its Achaemenid tombs
 pre-Achaemenid reliefs and graves show it was already important when Darius ordered his monumental tomb to be carved into the cliff (Huseyn Kuh).
 tomb is known for the king’s “autobiography” – DNa and DNb – central though is that Darius wanted to rule according to justice. Sealed until Alexander overthrew empire and looted.
DNa – describes countries he ruled/conquered (26 – tribute, held his law, listened to him) – Parthia, Aria, Bactria, India, Scythians, Babylonia, Assyria, Lydia
DNb – Ahuramazda gave Darius wisdom to be king, he is a strong ruler – own opinion, decisions, fair, good fighter.
 later similar tombs were added – no inscriptions, cant be ID’d with certainty but must have belonged to Darius son and successor Xerxes, Artaxerxes I and grandson Darius II. 3-9 people in each, later kings probably buried in Persepolis.
 

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So yeah basically a burial place, and because of the inscriptions which revealed information about the empire/king.
 

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