Susa
Sign in to saveSusa ( ) was an ancient city in the lower Zagros Mountains about east of the Tigris, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers in Iran. It represents the current city of Shush, located on the site of ancient Susa. One of the most important cities of the Ancient Near East, Susa served as the capital of Elam and the winter capital of the Achaemenid Empire, and remained a strategic centre during the Parthian and Sasanian periods.
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Susa was an ancient city located in what is now Iran, between two rivers in the lower Zagros Mountains, and it is represented today by the city of Shush. It was one of the most important cities of the Ancient Near East, serving as the capital of Elam and the winter capital of the Achaemenid Empire, and it remained strategically significant through later periods of history.
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- The Palace of Darius in Susa
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- Shush, Khuzestan Province, Iran
- Ancient site.region
- Zagros Mountains
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- Settlement
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- 4395-4200 BCE the late 5th millennium BCE
- Ancient site.abandoned
- 1218 AD
- Ancient site.event
- Battle of Susa
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34 sectionsContents
- Name
- Literary references
- Biblical texts
- Ancient Greek Theatre
- Pseudepigrapha
- Excavation history
- History
- Early settlement
- Susa I period (4200–3800 BC)
- Metallurgy
- Ceramic objects
- Susa II and Uruk influence (3800–3100 BC)
- Susa III, or "Proto-Elamite", period (3100–2700 BC)
- Elamites
- Old Elamite period (c. 2700–1500 BC)
- Kutik-Inshushinak
- Indus-Susa relations (2400–2100 BC)
- Middle Elamite period (c. 1500–1100 BC)
- Neo-Elamite period (c. 1100–540 BC)
- Neo-Assyrians
- Achaemenid Period
- Seleucid period
- Parthian period
- Sassanid period
- Islamic period
- Today
- World Heritage listing
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- Excavation reports
- External links
Susa ( ) was an ancient city in the lower Zagros Mountains about east of the Tigris, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers in Iran. It represents the current city of Shush, located on the site of ancient Susa. One of the most important cities of the Ancient Near East, Susa served as the capital of Elam and the winter capital of the Achaemenid Empire, and remained a strategic centre during the Parthian and Sasanian periods.
== Name == The name Susa is of Elamite origin and has appeared in many languages: Middle Middle and Neo- Neo-Elamite and Achaemenid Achaemenid