The ancient language of Linear Elamite may have finally been deciphered, according to a peer-reviewed paper recently published in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische ...

A team of researchers, with a member each from the University of Tehran, Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Bologna working with another independent researcher, has claimed to have ...

This discovery sheds light on the political and economic significance of the ancient site of Garan on the western borders of Elamite civilization. According to ISNA, the findings were reported during ...

Over the past century, archaeologists have uncovered more than 1,600 Proto-Elamite inscriptions, but only about 43 in Linear Elamite, scattered widely across Iran. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

Introduction / Javier Álvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello, and Yasmina Wicks. Part I. Imagining Elam: the history of research and its sources. Aelam regio : Elam in Western scholarship from the ...

“We unearthed arrays of important objects such as over 1,000 clay seals while conducting an urgent excavation on an archaeological hill in Kermanshah province,” IRNA quoted archaeologist Shokouh ...

A writing system known as "Linear Elamite" has been deciphered, but some experts are not so sure about the results. For almost 120 years, the writing system known as "Linear Elamite" was considered ...

Linguist and historian Filippo Pedron takes us inside the world of Elamite, a forgotten language, and shares how fragments of clay tablets are helping reconstruct a civilization’s voice. Filippo ...

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 ...

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 ...