Proto-Elamite

Proto Elamite is an imprecise term for the oldest known culture of Iran. The term describes the people who lived 3200 to 2700 BC in the west of present-day Iran in Khuzistan. Since about 1600 despite findings could not decipher the proto- Elamite linear script, it is unclear whether this people was identical with the later Elamites living there or not.

Centers of the Proto - Elamites were in Susa and Tappe Sialk where the only surviving ziggurat is located. From their linear script is well-developed in the Elamites in the late third millennium, at least partially deciphered Linear Elamite script, but it sat parallel the influence of the Sumerians elamitsche cuneiform through.

2007 became the culture in the focus of interest, as the Guennol - lioness with a retail price of $ 57 million the most expensive antique was.

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