In 1901, Egyptologist Gustave Jéquier, a member of an expedition headed by Jacques de Morgan, found the stele containing the Code of Hammurabi in what is now Khūzestān, Iran ( ancient Susa, Elam ), where it had been taken as plunder by the Elamite king Shutruk-Nahhunte in the 12th century BC.

But when Pope Hadrian I called for help from the powerful king Charlemagne, Desiderius was defeated at Susa and besieged in Pavia, while his son Adelchis had also to open the gates of Verona to Frankish troops.

De Morgan and V. Scheil at Susa, where it had later been taken as plunder.

He fought and defeated the Elamites and drove them from Babylonian territory, sacking the Elamite capital Susa, and recovering the sacred statue of Marduk that had been carried off from Babylon.

Darius ended the Elamite revolt when the revolutionary leader Aschina was captured and executed in Susa, after three months the revolt in Babylonia had ended.

There were headquarters of imperial administration at Persepolis, Susa, and Babylon while Bactria, Ecbatana, Sardis, Dascyclium and Memphis also had branches of imperial administration.

During Darius's Greek expedition, he had begun construction projects in Susa, Egypt and Persepolis.

By the middle Susa II period, the city had grown to 25 ha.

The Nabonidus Chronicle records that, prior to the battle ( s ), Nabonidus had ordered cult statues from outlying Babylonian cities to be brought into the capital, suggesting that the conflict over Susa had begun possibly in the winter of 540 BCE.

They had two daughters, Agnes, d. after1110 ; m. 1080 Ct Friedrich von Luetzelburg, Mgve of Susa ( died 1092 ) and Alice, d. ca 1111 ; m. 1099 Mgve Boniface of Vasto and Saluzzo.

Toll roads are at least 2700 years old, as tolls had to be paid by travellers using the Susa – Babylon highway under the regime of Ashurbanipal, who reigned in the seventh century BC.

The satraps in Susa had apparently accepted Eumenes ' claims of his fighting on behalf of the lawful ruling family against the usurper Antigonus.

In spring 324 BC Hephaestion left Susa, where he had been married, and accompanied Alexander and the rest of the army as they travelled towards Ecbatana.

During a brief respite provided by the civil war between Ashurbanipal and his own brother Shamash-shum-ukin whom their father Esarhaddon had installed as the vassal king of Babylon, the Elamites too indulged in fighting among themselves, so weakening the Elamite kingdom that in 646 BC Ashurbanipal devastated Susiana with ease, and sacked Susa.

Sometime after 490 BC, the humiliated Demaratus had chosen to go into exile, and had made his way to Darius's court in Susa.

After the Battle of Gaugamela, Alexander had advanced to Babylon and Susa.

A Royal Road connected Susa with the more eastern capitals of Persepolis and Pasargadae in Persis ( the Persian Empire had several " capitals "), and was the natural venue for Alexander's continued campaign.

: From to Aššur and ( from ) Susa, Agade, Ešnunna, Zamban, Me-Turnu, Der, as far as the region of Gutium, the sacred centers on the other side of the Tigris, whose sanctuaries had been abandoned for a long time, I returned the images of the gods, who had resided there in Babylon, to their places and I let them dwell in eternal abodes.

* The Dangerous Liaisons, composed by Conrad Susa to a libretto by Philip Littell, had its world premiere during the 1994 fall season and was the subject of a nationwide TV broadcast.

Champlain and other colonists were taken to England, where they learned that peace had been agreed ( in the 1629 Treaty of Susa ) before Quebec's surrender, and the Kirkes were obliged to return their takings.

* Daniel 8: 2 – " I had a second vision in which I was in Susa, the chief city of Babylonia ` s Elam province.

* Abdas, bishop of Susa, burns down a Zoroastrian temple ; in retaliation, king Yazdegerd I of Persia orders the destruction of Christian churches.

There are accounts in the biblical Book of Esther of dispatches being sent from Susa to provinces as far out as India and the Kingdom of Kush during the reign of Xerxes the Great ( 485 – 465 BC ).

Both Daniel and Nehemiah lived in Susa during the Babylonian captivity of the 6th century BCE.

Susa was firmly within the Uruk cultural sphere during the Uruk period.

Susa enters history during the Early Dynastic period of Sumer.

In 647 BCE, the Assyrian king Assurbanipal leveled the city during a war in which the people of Susa participated on the other side.

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.

Events mentioned in the Old Testament book of Esther are said to have occurred in Susa during either the Achaemenid or Sassanid periods.

The physician sent a message regarding his marriage to Darius who was an admirer of the wrestler and can only have learned of him through Democedes during his slavery at Susa.

Winged sphinx from the palace of Darius the Great during Achaemenid Empire | Persian Empire at Susa ( 480 BC ).

Shutruk-Nakhkhunte and his three sons, Kutir-Nakhkhunte II, Shilhak-In-Shushinak, and Khutelutush-In-Shushinak were capable of frequent military campaigns into Kassite Babylonia ( which was also being ravaged by Assyria during this period ), and at the same time were exhibiting vigorous construction activity — building and restoring luxurious temples in Susa and across their Empire.

Determining the composition of the Memorial depends on the dates of Nehemiah's mission: It is commonly accepted that " Artaxerxes " was Artaxerxes I ( there were two later kings of the same name ), and that Nehemiah's first period in Jerusalem was therefore 445-433 BC ; allowing for his return to Susa and second journey to Jerusalem, the end of the 5th century BC is therefore the earliest possible date for the Memorial.

Cyrus ' conquest of Susa and the rest of Babylonia commenced a fundamental shift, bringing Susa under Persian control for the first time.

Susa lost much of its importance when Alexander of Macedon conquered it in 331 BCE and destroyed the first Persian Empire.

Having crossed the Cottian Alps at the Mont Cenis pass, he first came to Segusium ( Susa, Italy ), a heavily fortified town containing a military garrison, which shut its gates to him.

Some time later, Megabyzus saved Artaxerxes from a lion in a hunt, was subsequently exiled to Cyrtae for violating the royal prerogative to make the first kill, but returned to Susa by pretending to be a leper and was pardoned.

We know of twelve kings of each of the first two dynasties, those of Awan ( or Avan ; c. 2400 – 2100 BC ) and Simash ( c. 2100 – 1970 BC ), from a list from Susa dating to the Old Babylonian period.

The seat of the province has for the most of its history been in the northern reaches of the land, first at Susa ( Shush ) and then at Shushtar.

By the end of the first millennium, Orbassano was among the lands of the Margrave of Susa, but in 1029 it found itself sold by Manfredi to the new Abbey of San Giusto in Susa.

Exemplars of izbu compendia first appear in the old Babylonian period but it is not until the late second millennium that it is thought to have reached canonical form and exemplars of teratomantic texts from this era have been found in Assur and Babylon as well as further afield in Susa, Emar, Ugarit and Ḫattuša.

Kutik-Inshushinak's first position was as governor of Susa, which he may have held from a young age.