From the point of view of the Akkadian Empire, Subartu marked the northern geographical horizon, just as Martu, Elam and Sumer marked " west ", " east " and " south ", respectively.

The Guennol Lioness is an outstanding small limestone figure from Elam of about 3000 – 2800 BC, part man and part lion.

Despite the loss of territory, military weakness, and evident reduction in literacy and culture, the Kassite dynasty was the longest-lived dynasty of Babylon, lasting until 1157 BC, when Babylon was conquered by Shutruk-Nahhunte of Elam, and re-conquered a few years later by the native Akkadian-Babylonian Nebuchadrezzar I, part of the larger Bronze Age collapse.

The last part of Jeremiah 49 is an apocalyptic oracle against Elam which states that Elam will be scattered to the four winds of the earth, but " will be, in the end of days, that I will return their captivity ," a prophesy self-dated to the first year of Zedekiah ( 597 BC ).

Susa underwent a major political and ethnocultural transition when it became part of the Persian Achaemenid empire between 540-539 BCE when it was captured by Cyrus the Great during his conquest of Elam ( Susiana ), of which Susa was the capital.

The southwestern part of the Iranian plateau participated in the wider Ancient Near East with Elam, from the Early Bronze Age.

Eannatum's campaigns extended beyond the confines of Sumer, and he overran a part of Elam, took the city of Az on the Persian Gulf, and exacted tribute as far as Mari ; however many of the realms he conquered were often in revolt.

Elam () was an ancient civilization centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of what is now Khuzestan () and Ilam Province (), as well as a small part of southern Iraq.

Situated just to the east of Mesopotamia, Elam was part of the early urbanization during the Chalcolithic period ( Copper Age ).

During the first part of the rule of the Simashki dynasty, Elam was under intermittent attack from Mesopotamians and Gutians, alternating with periods of peace and diplomatic approaches.

His most recent role, as part of the ensemble cast of AMC's Hell on Wheels, is portraying one of the lead characters, Elam Ferguson, a recently-freed slave trying to find his place in the world.

In the opening of Once Upon a Time in the West, three bad guys ( Jack Elam, who appeared in a small part in High Noon, Woody Strode, and Al Mulock ) wait at a station.

Norah Elam had the distinction of being detained during both World Wars, three times during 1914 as a suffragette prisoner under the name Dacre Fox, then as an 18b detainee in 1940, when she was part of the social circle that gathered around Diana Mosley during their early internment period.

Elam classified the stages of a moderately successful actor's life, as defined by the way a film director refers to the actor suggested for a part.

The boundaries of Elam shifted throughout history, but Elam usually included present-day Khuzestan and areas of the Iranian plateau now part of the Iranian province of Fars.

Notable among them are: ( 1 ) whether the word " eden " means a steppe or plain, or instead means " delight " or some similar term ; ( 2 ) whether the garden was in the east of Eden, or Eden itself was in the east, or whether " east " is not the correct word at all and the Hebrew means the garden was " of old "; ( 3 ) whether the river in Genesis 2: 10 " follows from " or " rises in " Eden, and the relationship, if any, of the four rivers to each other ; and ( 4 ) whether Cush, where one of the four rivers flows, means Ethiopia ( in Africa ) or Elam ( just east of Mesopotamia ).

In southern Mesopotamia were the alluvial plains of Sumer and Elam.

Turkmenistan was a passing point for numerous migrations and invasions by tribes which gravitated towards the settled regions of the south including ancient Mesopotamia, Elam, and the Indus Valley Civilization.

Historical records mention the conquest of Elam by Enmebaragesi the Sumerian king of Kish in Mesopotamia.

In the Bronze Age, Elam stretched across the Zagros mountains, connecting Mesopotamia and the Iranian Plateau.

Hincks deduced correctly that cuneiform writing had been invented by one of the earliest civilizations of Mesopotamia ( a people later identified by Oppert as the Sumerians ), who then bequeathed it to later states such as Babylon, Assyria and Elam.

In representing the star and crescent on their coins the Parthians thus adopted traditional symbols used in Mesopotamia and Elam more than two millennia before their own arrival in those parts.

The earliest known uniform systems of weights and measures seem all to have been created at some time in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC among the ancient peoples of Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley, and perhaps also Elam ( in Iran ) as well.

2240 BC ), Amurru was called one of the " four quarters " surrounding Sumer, along with Subartu / Assyria, Akkad, and Elam.

For the Akkadian kings Mar. tu was one of the " Four Quarters " surrounding Akkad, along with Subartu, Sumer, and Elam.

Similarly, the earliest references to the " four quarters " by the kings of Akkad name Subartu as one of these quarters around Akkad, along with Martu, Elam, and Sumer.

According to the Book of Jeremiah, Moab and Biblical Elam which were exiled during the Babylonian Exile, will be brought back from their captivity in the end of days.

The children of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram, in addition to daughters.

The 1st century historian Flavius Josephus, among many others, recounted the tradition that these five sons were the progenitors of the nations of Elam, Assyria, Chaldea, Lydia, and Syria, respectively.

* Elam " eternity " ( sons were Shushan, Machul and Harmon )-( Elamites, Khuzestanis )

Elam was destroyed, and the Chaldeans, Arabs, Arameans and Suteans were violently subjugated.

Eastward rose the mountains of Elam, southward were the sea-marshes and the Kaldy or Chaldeans and other Aramaic tribes, while on the west the civilization of Babylonia encroached beyond the banks of the Euphrates, upon the territory of the Semitic nomads ( or Suti ).

The heroes, with the exception of an old man similar to Brennan's and Hunnicutt's characters in the previous pictures ( Jack Elam here ), were complete outsiders.

Some areas at the border to Elam were occupied as well.

They were followed by L. Stevenson, L. M. Rogers, B. K. Ford, C. Chaplin, T. McCarty, Tabitha Baldwin, J. S. Elam and G. E. Ward.

The Mosleys were interned during much of World War II, under Defence Regulation 18B along with other British fascists including Norah Elam.

According to his own records, Gudea brought cedars from the Amanus and Lebanon mountains in Syria, diorite from eastern Arabia, copper and gold from central and southern Arabia, while his armies were engaged in battles with Elam on the east.

In reference to the above mentioned Jazzmatazz project, Elam told Pete Lewis of Blues & Soul: " Back around ’ 93 — when I first came up with the Jazzmatazz concept — I was noticing how a lot of cats were digging in the crates and sampling jazz breaks to make hip hop records.

The Elam family had a Guru Tribute Web Site set up where visitors were able to view tributes and sign a memorial page.

Norah Dacre Fox ( later known as Norah Elam ) led many of the deputations on behalf of the WSPU which were widely reported in The Suffragette.

Elsewhere, the armies of Elam were attacking and weakening the empire, making it vulnerable.

Ashur's brothers were Elam, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

It has been conjectured by others that Lud's descendants spread to areas of the far-east beyond Elam, or that they were identified with the Lullubi.

His brothers were Elam, Asshur, Lud and Aram ; he is an ancestor of Abraham.

After two years Babylon and Borsippa were besieged, and Elam was defeated and destroyed.

ADD as a company failed and the rights to the Nova were bought by Vic Elam who founded a new company, Nova Cars in Mirfield, West Yorkshire in 1978 which continued until 1990.

Core members of this team were Eve Lipchik, Wallace Gingerich, Elam Nunnally, Alex Molnar, and Michele Weiner-Davis.