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Bookmark or Share- Susa – The City Between Two Rivers | World History1684. Tepe of the Royal city (left) and of the Acropolis (right) seen from the Tepe of the Apadana. Susa, Iran. The modern metropolis of Shush, in Iran, rises over the ruins of an ancient cultural center of grandeur and wealth: the great city of Susa. Susa is one of the oldest cities in the world.
- Site-Seeing: Surprising Susa - Biblical Archaeology SocietyMost of what you can see at Susa today began in 521 B.C. when Darius chose to center his empire there. Atop the Elamite ruins, he built a massive terrace, importing more than a million cubic meters of earth and employing workers from the farthest reaches of his kingdom.
- Susa | Achaemenid, Elamite, Persian Empire | BritannicaSusa, capital of Elam (Susiana) and administrative capital of the Achaemenian king Darius I and his successors from 522 bce. It was located at the foot of the Zagros Mountains near the bank of the Karkheh Kūr (Choaspes) River in the Khuzistan region of Iran. winged lion from Susa.
- Susa - UNESCO World Heritage CentreSusa. Description. Maps. Documents. Gallery. Indicators. Susa. Located in the south-west of Iran, in the lower Zagros Mountains, the property encompasses a group of archaeological mounds rising on the eastern side of the Shavur River, as well as Ardeshir’s palace, on the opposite bank of the river.
- Susa - World History EncyclopediaSusa was a principal city of the Elamite, Achaemenid Persian, and Parthian empires and was originally known to the Elamites as 'Susan' or 'Susun'. The Greek name for the city was Sousa and the Hebrew, Shushan.
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