Episode 7.1 - Shutruk Nakhunte
/Shutruk-Nakhunte was the most powerful king of Elam. He took this often times disunited culture, and created an empire out of it. Elam existed for thousands of years, but under Shutruk-Nakhunte they managed to be one of the great powers in the region, a rarity for them despite their long-lived civilization.
Sources
G.G. Cameron, Early History of Elam
Francois Vallet, “ELAM i. The history of Elam,” Encyclopaedia Iranica
https://iranicaonline.org/articles/elam-iNebudchadnezzar’s Kudurru for Shitti-Marduk
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1882-0522-1800Cambridge History of Iran, Chapter 1 - Elam, I. M. Diakonoff
Cambridge History of Iran, Chapter 2 - Anshan in the Elamite and Achaemenian Periods, J. Hansman
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