Directory of Elamite Resources

An ancient little-known language isolate spoken in SW Persia.

Resources in This Category

Breakthrough in world’s oldest undeciphered writing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19964786
The BBC reports on the work at Oxford University to understand Proto-Elamite, a writing system developed in an area that is now in south-western Iran.
Elam between Assyriology and Iranian Studies

http://digilander.libero.it/elam/elam/second_column_speech.htm
Paper by the Italian scholar Gian Pietro Basello. It outlines the history of Elamite studies, including an extensive bibliography.
Elamite Scripts

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/elamite.htm
Illustrated survey of the three known scripts used for writing Elamite.
Encyclopaedia of the Orient - Elamite

http://i-cias.com/e.o/elam.htm
Short entry on the Elamite language (with map), including its history.

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