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The archaeology of Elam
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ISBN: 0521564964 9780521564960 0521563585 0511016050 0511323301 0511173105 051105355X 0511152078 0511489617 1280429119 9780521563581 9780511489617 1107113253 9780511016059 9786610429110 6610429111 0521563385 Year: 1999 Volume: *6 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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From the middle of the 3rd millennium BC until the coming of Cyrus the Great, southwestern Iran was referred to in Mesopotamian sources as the land of Elam. A heterogeneous collection of regions, Elam was home to a variety of groups, alternately the object of Mesopotamian aggression, and aggressors themselves; an ethnic group seemingly swallowed up by the vast Achaemenid Persian empire, yet a force strong enough to attack Babylonia in the last centuries BC. The Elamite language is attested as late as the Medieval era, and the name Elam as late as 1300 in the records of the Nestorian church. This book examines the formation and transformation of Elam's many identities through both archaeological and written evidence, and brings to life one of the most important regions of Western Asia, re-evaluates its significance, and places it in the context of the most recent archaeological and historical scholarship.


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The Arjān tomb : at the crossroads of the Elamite and the Persian empires
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ISBN: 9789042922006 9042922001 Year: 2010 Volume: 49 Publisher: Leuven ; Paris ; Walpole (Mass.) : Peeters,

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