A UNESCO World Heritage, Susa was once the capital of the Elamite Empire and later an administrative capital of the Achaemenian king Darius I and his successors from 522 BC. Excavations have uncovered ...

Officers suspect a person with a black backpack who was standing next to a parked car and left the place upon seeing the policemen, Mehr reported on Tuesday. The accused who fled from the place was ...

Archaeologists have made a significant discovery in the town of Garan, located in the Dehloran plain, Ilam province, southwest Iran. They found inscriptions on bricks in Akkadian script, which likely ...

This documentary traces the transformation of ancient Iran from the early Elamite civilization to the vast Achaemenid Empire that reshaped the political order of the ancient world. It examines the ...

Introduction / Javier Álvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello, and Yasmina Wicks. Part I. Imagining Elam: the history of research and its sources. Aelam regio : Elam in Western scholarship from the ...

Starting with not much more than a general interest in ancient languages and/or the Persian empire, a group of students, doctoral candidates, post-docs and senior scholars embarked on the adventure of ...

Linguist and historian Filippo Pedron takes us inside the world of Elamite, a forgotten language, and shares how fragments of clay tablets are helping reconstruct a civilization’s voice. Filippo ...