Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Elam was an ancient civilization located in what is now southwest Iran. Knowledge of Elamite history remains largely fragmentary, reconstruction being based on mainly Mesopotamian sources. Eshkaft-e ...

Tradition und Nationalgefühl in der elamischen Konföderation / Michael Andreas Mäder -- Agricultural production of the Girsu-Lagaš Institution at Susa during the Ur III Period / Kazuya Maekawa -- ...

For almost 120 years, the writing system known as "Linear Elamite" was considered illegible. Now a team of archaeologists claims to have partially deciphered the writing system. But other researchers ...

Farzad Sharifi stated that in a meeting of the Council for the Registration of Historical and Cultural Artifacts of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism, four proposed files ...

A special event in April was an intensive course in Achaemenid Elamite given by Wouter Henkelman from the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. For five days we delved into the structure of this ...