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Location

  • Iran (Islamic Republic of), Shūsh
  • geo:32.188938,48.248371

Period or year

  • -3500~ / 6xx

Classification

  • city
  • Visible

Susa [Shush]

data access 11393

Susa (Elamitic, Babylonian: Šušim; Greek τὰ Σοῦσα): capital of Elam, favorite residence of the Persian king Darius I the Great.

  1. R. Boucharlat, "Susa under Achaemenid Rule" in: John Curtis (ed.) Mesopotamia and Iran in the Persian Period: Conquest and Imperialism 559-331 BC (1997 London) 54-67.
  2. Gil J. Stein,  Alternative Pathways to Incipient Social Complexityin Mesopotamia and Iran in the 6 th  -5 th  millennia BCE, Proceedings of the International Congress of Young Archaeologists, 2015, Vol. 3. Iranology Foundation: Tehran, 2018, pp. 19-43

Susa, capital of Elam

Relevant museums

  • Susa, Archaeological Museum
    Susa, Archaeological Museum
    Iran (Islamic Republic of), Shūsh
  • Tehran, National Museumof Iran
    Tehran, National Museum Archaeological collections from Paleolithic to Qajar period
    Iran (Islamic Republic of), Tehran
  • Paris, Louvre
    Paris, Louvre
    France, Paris
  • The British Museum
    The British Museum has one of the world's largest collections of antiquities from the Classical world.
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Holborn

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Use and reuse

Creators: Entry created by Voorburg, R.J.J. (2012-12-21) , last updated by Jona Lendering (2020-08-18), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/11393
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Suggested citation: Voorburg, R.J.J. and Lendering, J., Susa [Shush]. https://vici.org/vici/11393, accessed 2026-10-31.