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Elam (/ Λ iΛ l Ι m /) [a] was an ancient civilization centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of what is now Khuzestan and Ilam Province as well as a small part of southern Iraq. The modern name Elam stems from the Sumerian transliteration elam(a), along with the later Akkadian elamtu, and the ...
Elam was clearly a consolidated kingdom with strong royal authority by the first half of the 8th century BC, when the country and its rulers once more begin to appear frequently in Mesopotamian texts. The earliest known dynasty of rulers from the Neo-Elamite period is conventionally referred to simply as the First Neo-Elamite dynasty. [65]
[2] Babylon's seventh dynasty, also known as the Elamite dynasty, was founded around 980 BC. [3] [4] It was the third of a series of very short lived Babylonian dynasties, namely the Second Sealand Dynasty, the Bazi Dynasty and the Elamite Dynasty. [4] [5] Its first and sole ruler was the Elamite Mar-biti-apla-usur.
Puzzle Quest 3 was developed by Infinity Plus 2 and published by 505 Games for release on Microsoft Windows and iOS and Android devices on March 1, 2022. [3] An early access form for Android was first released on March 26, 2021. [4] [5] Puzzle Quest 3 is a direct follow up of Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords. [6]
Shutruk-Nahhunte is known by an inscription that he added to the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin, itself dated about one millennium earlier to circa 2250 BC.His inscription appears on the top right corner of the stele, on the depiction of a mountainous cone, and was written in Elamite by Shutruk-Nahhunte himself: [5]
Before the rise of the Akkadian Empire in the 24th century BC, Mesopotamia was fragmented into a number of city states. Whereas some surviving Mesopotamian documents, such as the Sumerian King List, describe this period as one where there was only one legitimate king at any one given time, and kingship was transferred from city to city sequentially, the historical reality was that there were ...
A dynasty of Elamite rulers was named after the city, the Awan Dynasty. It was founded by a ruler named Peli, and is therefore sometimes called "the dynasty of Peli". [1] According to the Sumerian King List, Awan put an end to the First Dynasty of Ur circa 2450 BC, and three kings of Awan then ruled over the southern regions of Sumer ...
Eannatum (Sumerian: πππΎπΊ É.AN.NA-tum 2; fl. c. 2450 BC) was a Sumerian Ensi (ruler or king) of Lagash.He established one of the first verifiable empires in history, subduing Elam and destroying the city of Susa, and extending his domain over the rest of Sumer and Akkad. [1]