Elam was a region in the Near East corresponding to the modern-day provinces of Ilam and Khuzestan in southern Iran (though it also included part of modern-day southern Iraq) whose civilization spanned thousands of years from c. 3200 - c. 539 BCE.
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Timeline
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c. 4200 BCEFounding of the city of Susa.
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c. 3200 BCE - c. 2700 BCEProto-Elamite period.
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c. 2700 BCE - c. 1600 BCEOld Elamite period.
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2700 BCEFirst war in recorded history between Elam and Sumer; Sumer wins.
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c. 1750 BCEElam conquers Ur.
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c. 1500 BCE - c. 1100 BCEMiddle Elamite period.
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c. 1275 BCE - 1240 BCEReign of the Elamite king Untash-Napirisha; Construction of the great temple complex of Dur-Untash (Chogha Zanbil).
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1184 BCE - 1155 BCEReign of the Elamite king Shutruk-Nakhkunte who establishes the Elamite Empire.
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c. 1100 BCE - c. 539 BCENeo-Elamite period.
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648 BCEWar between Assyria and the Elamites.
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c. 646 BCEDestruction of the Elamite city of Susa by Ashurbanipal of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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c. 539 BCEElam is absorbed into the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great.
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187 BCE - 224 CEElamite culture is continued by the Elamite nation-state of Elymais until it is absorbed by the Persian Sassanian Empire.
