امپراتوری عیلام

Spanning several millennia, the history of the Elamite Empire has long remained one of the lesser-known domains of ancient Iranian history. In modern Iranian historiography of antiquity, the periods of Elamite political, cultural, and civilizational dominance over vast expanses of the Iranian Plateau and Mesopotamia have largely been relegated to the domain of archaeological research. Much of the archaeological work in this field has focused on excavations and studies of Chogha Zanbil in Susa —regarded as the principal temple and most significant surviving monumental structure from the Elamite period. Over the past century, a growing number of works on Elam and Chogha Zanbil have appeared, written and sometimes translated chiefly by European Iranologists and archaeologists. Behzad Mofidi Nasrabadi’s Chogha Zanbil: Bāft-e shahri va janbehāy-e meʿmāri dar Elām-e bāstān (Chogha Zanbil: Urban Fabric and Architectural Aspects in Ancient Elam), comprising ten substantial chapters, stands as one of the most recent and valuable contributions to the field. Drawing from his twenty years of dedicated “research and study of the ancient Elamite city at Chogha Zanbil,” the author meticulously delves into all available authoritative sources, with particular reliance on the valuable research of German scholars.