Elam Timeline

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c. 4200 BCE

Founding of the city of Susa.
c. 3200 BCE - c. 2700 BCE

Proto-Elamite period.
c. 2700 BCE - c. 1600 BCE

Old Elamite period.
2700 BCE

First war in recorded history between Elam and Sumer; Sumer wins.
c. 1750 BCE

Elam conquers Ur.
c. 1500 BCE - c. 1100 BCE

Middle Elamite period.
c. 1275 BCE - 1240 BCE

Reign of the Elamite king Untash-Napirisha; Construction of the great temple complex of Dur-Untash (Chogha Zanbil).
1184 BCE - 1155 BCE

Reign of the Elamite king Shutruk-Nakhkunte who establishes the Elamite Empire.
c. 1100 BCE - c. 539 BCE

Neo-Elamite period.
648 BCE

War between Assyria and the Elamites.
c. 646 BCE

Destruction of the Elamite city of Susa by Ashurbanipal of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
c. 539 BCE

Elam is absorbed into the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great.
187 BCE - 224 CE

Elamite culture is continued by the Elamite nation-state of Elymais until it is absorbed by the Persian Sassanian Empire.

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