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<< Our Photo Pages >> Susa (Iran) - Ancient Palace in Iran

Submitted by AlexHunger on Sunday, 16 December 2012  Page Views: 16844

Multi-periodSite Name: Susa (Iran) Alternative Name: Shûshan, Su’s a, Darius I Palace
Country: Iran
NOTE: This site is 0.891 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Palace
Nearest Town: Shush  Nearest Village: Shush
Latitude: 32.192470N  Longitude: 48.249130E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by DrewParsons : Clay head from Haft Tepe site. Middle Elamite period, at Susa Museum. April 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Elamite capital city dating from about 4000 BCE, incorporated by Sargon the Great into his Akkadian Empire in approximately 2330 BCE, probably named after the lilies that grow in large numbers in this region.

Later it was one of the capitals of the Persian Empire during the time of Darius the Great. Here the Persian kings came to reside for the winter.


Note: 'Crowd-sourcing' website to help decipher ancient writing
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Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by SolarMegalith : Remains of a sculpture in Susa. The city was destroyed by Assurbanipal in year 647 BC, but later it flourished under Cambyses II (photo taken on April 2007). (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by SolarMegalith : Lower part of a Ionian-style column in Susa (photo taken on April 2007). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by DrewParsons : Detail from a ceramic tile facade at Susa Museum. April 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by DrewParsons : Ceramic tile facade at Susa Museum. April 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by DrewParsons : Fine figure of a bull's head in the museum at Susa. April 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Susa (Iran) submitted by DrewParsons : Statue at Susa. April 2014

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Susa (Iran) submitted by DrewParsons : Frieze of Archers from the Tell of the Apadana, Palace of Darius I, Susa, Iran. Archaemenid Persian Period during the reign of Darius I circa 510BC Now in The Louvre in Paris.

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Susa (Iran) submitted by durhamnature : Colour image from archive.org

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by DrewParsons : Ceramic tile facade at Susa Museum. April 2014.

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by DrewParsons : Remains of a column at Susa. April 2014

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by DrewParsons : The Apadana - all that remains today. April 2014

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by durhamnature : Colour image from archive.org

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by durhamnature : Old photo, from "History of Europe and...." via archive.org

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by durhamnature : Chimera on a frieze at Susa, from "Treasure of the Oxus" via archive.org

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by durhamnature : Old colour image from "History of Egypt...." via archive.org Site in Iran

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by AlexHunger : Brick Panels of Shutrukkides Kings from Apadana Palace in Susa dating to XII century BCE. Similar to Sumerian temples Object in Louvre, Paris

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by AlexHunger : Foundation stone with cuneiforms in babylonian from Darius Apadana Palace in Susa. Object in the Louvre, Paris

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by AlexHunger : Glased Brick Frieze from Palace of Darius in Susa, now in Iran, dating to about 510 BCE. Object in Louvre, Paris

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by DrewParsons : Tokens from Susa dated to 3200 BC at Susa Museum. April 2014

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by DrewParsons : Middle Paleolithic core and flake found in North Susa. Susa Museum. April 2014

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by DrewParsons : Clay head from Haft Tepe site. Middle Elamite period. April 2014.

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by DrewParsons

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by DrewParsons : Painted pottery dated to between 4500 and 4000 BC in the museum at Susa. April 2014.

Susa (Iran)
Susa (Iran) submitted by DrewParsons : Painted vase from Susiana era 4500 to 4000 BC in the Museum at Susa. April 2014

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'Crowd-sourcing' website to decipher ancient writing by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 04 December 2012
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The Oxford academic trying to crack an ancient undeciphered writing system has set up a website to "crowd-source" help from the public.

Jacob Dahl was so overwhelmed by offers of help from BBC News website readers that he has made a website to harness their code-breaking skills.

Dr Dahl wants to decipher proto-Elamite texts on 5,000-year-old clay tablets.

Among those offering help is the grandson of one of the archaeologists who unearthed them over a century ago.

Nicolas Jequier, living in Switzerland, is the grandson of Gustave Jequier, an archaeologist who explored the sites in south-west Iran where the tablets were found.

He says he wants to help in the latest efforts to understand this writing, saying that his grandfather "must have brought back to the Louvre several of these tablets from his digs in Susa in 1897-1902".

Susa - near the modern Iranian town of Shush - was a very early settlement in this region, possibly dating back to more than 6,000 years ago. French archaeologists carried out major excavations before World War I.

Read more at the BBC.

And the Oxford University Proto-Elamite website referred to.
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Breakthrough in world's oldest undeciphered writing by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 23 October 2012
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The world's oldest undeciphered writing system, which has so far defied attempts to uncover its 5,000-year-old secrets, could be about to be decoded by Oxford University academics.

This international research project is already casting light on a lost bronze age middle eastern society where enslaved workers lived on rations close to the starvation level.

"I think we are finally on the point of making a breakthrough," says Jacob Dahl, fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and director of the Ancient World Research Cluster.

Dr Dahl's secret weapon is being able to see this writing more clearly than ever before.

In a room high up in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, above the Egyptian mummies and fragments of early civilisations, a big black dome is clicking away and flashing out light.

This device, part sci-fi, part-DIY, is providing the most detailed and high quality images ever taken of these elusive symbols cut into clay tablets. This is Indiana Jones with software.

It's being used to help decode a writing system called proto-Elamite, used between around 3200BC and 2900BC in a region now in the south west of modern Iran.

And the Oxford team think that they could be on the brink of understanding this last great remaining cache of undeciphered texts from the ancient world.

Read more at - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19964786

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