“[...] In this narrow territory [Elam], protected on the west by marshes, and on the east by mountains that shoulder the great Iranian Plateau, a people of unknown race and origin developed one of the first historic civilizations. [...]"
Will Durant, Story of Civilization, Vol.1: Our Oriental Heritage, Book 1, Ch.7, Part 1, 1935
"[...] Here is the oldest appearance not only of the potter's wheel but of the wagon wheel [...]"
Will Durant, Story of Civilization, Vol.1: Our Oriental Heritage, Book 1, Ch.7, Part 1, 1935
"From these already complex beginnings the Elamites rose to troubled power, conquering Sumeria and Babylon, and being conquered by them, turn by turn. The city of Susa [at the center of the region of Elam] survived six thousand years of history, lived through the imperial zeniths of Sumeria, Bablyonia, Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Greece, and Rome, and flourished, under the name of Shushan, as late as the fourteenth century of our era. [...]"
Will Durant, Story of Civilization, Vol.1: Our Oriental Heritage, Book 1, Ch.7, Part 1, 1935 (italics added)
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