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 ...

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 / ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixty-seven years after borrowing important documents from the government of Iran, the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute announced Wednesday that its scholars have read them, digested them ...

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 ...

The tablet which bears cuneiform inscriptions was found during a cultivation process on a personal farm in Ramhormoz county [of Khuzestan province], a senior police official in charge of protecting ...

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 ...