The book tells how Nehemiah, at the court of the king in Susa, is informed that Jerusalem is without walls and resolves to restore them.

In the 20th year of Artaxerxes ( the King of Persia ), Nehemiah, cup-bearer to the King in Susa ( the Persian capital ), learns that the wall of Jerusalem is destroyed.

The capital of the empire is at Susa.

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.

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.

The stele was later plundered by the Elamites and removed to their capital, Susa ; it was rediscovered there in 1901 and is now in the Louvre Museum in Paris.

In the travel account of Pythagoras, several chapters are related to description of his travels accompanied by Darius the Great, to Susa and Persepolis, and the area is described.

Kitchen calculates that over 30 years, such a kingdom might have accumulated up to 500 tons of gold, which is small compared to other examples, such as the 1, 180 tons of gold that Alexander the Great took from Susa.

Gostanza loves Martuccio Gomito, and hearing that he is dead, gives way to despair, and hies her alone aboard a boat, which is wafted by the wind to Susa.

* During the Islamic conquest of Persia, the city of Susa is destroyed.

* c. 4000 BC — Beaker from Susa ( modern Shush, Iran ) is made.

* 4000 BC — Susa is a center of pottery production.

700 BC ; Woman spinning, from Susa ( modern Shush, Iran ) is made.

* c. 1792 BCE – 1750 BCE: ( middle chronology ) – Stela of Hammurabi, from Susa ( modern Shush, Iran ) is made.

* c. 2254 BC – 2218 BC: Stela of Naram-Sin, probably from Sippar, discovered in Susa ( modern Shush, Iran ), is made.

Band-e Kaisar ( Caesar's dam ) is one of the remnants of Roman engineering located near the ancient city of Susa.

The modern Iranian town of Shush is located at the site of ancient Susa.

In historic literature, Susa appears in the very earliest Sumerian records, e. g. in Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta it is described as one of the places obedient to Inanna, patron deity of Uruk.

Susa is also mentioned in the Ketuvim of the Hebrew Bible by the name Shushan, mainly in Esther, but also once each in Nehemiah and Daniel.

In urban history, Susa is one of the oldest-known settlements of the region and the world, possibly founded about 4200 BCE.

The city was an important port in the trade from Mesopotamia to India and provided port facilities for the great city of Susa, further up the Tigris River.

Although this was granted, Histiaeus's ambition alarmed Darius's advisors, and Histiaeus was thus further ' rewarded ' by being compelled to remain in Susa as Darius's " Royal Table-Companion ".

Darius planned to head further east, and raise another army to face Alexander while he and the Macedonians headed to one of the Persian capitals, Babylon, and then to another, Susa.

Not counting the caliph's new home region of Syria, nor Egypt ( including eastern Libya ; both only recently lost by Byzantium to the Sassanids ), these were Iraq and Mesopotamia ( both Arabized, around ancient Ctesiphon and modern Baghdad respectively around ancient Nineveh and modern Mosul ), Khuzestan around ancient Susa, still partly Arabic ), Armenia, Iberia ( i. e. Trans-Caucasian Georgia ), Arran-Schirwan ( east of it ) all three of the northern front, Azerbaijan ( a Turkic people ) and the ethnic heart of Iran ( Fars which is the eponymous home province, Djibal-the ancient Media -, Gilan, Tabaristan and Djurdjan ( all three on the Caspian Sea coast ), Kerman, Sistan and Khorasan ( including Herat in present Afghanistan ); under the Omayyad dynasty ( 661-750 ) the caliphate expanded further east, adding Sindh ( now southern Pakistan ), Zabulistan ( including Kabul and Ghazna, later the eponymous seat of a mighty break-away Ghaznavid dynasty ) and in Central Asia Tocharistan ( around Balkh ) and Transoxania ( Sogdia, Fergana and Mawara An-Nahr, with Samarkand ).

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.

Initially only one squadron strong, they received 500 reinforcements in Egypt and a further 600 at Susa.

The city was an important port in the trade from Mesopotamia to India and provided port facilities for the great city of Susa, further up the present day Karun River.

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

Finally, some claim an artificial canal which ran close by Susa and connected the two rivers mentioned above.

Finally, some claim an artificial canal which ran close by Susa and connected the two rivers mentioned above.

This is enforced by the fact that Ahwāz and Fārs, mentioned in the quote for comparison to Susa, were regions as well, an indication that regions were being compared.

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 ).

The Book of Esther begins with a six-month ( 180 day ) drinking feast given by King Ahasuerus, for the army of Persia and Media, for the civil servants and princes in the 127 provinces of his kingdom, at the conclusion of which a seven-day drinking feast for the inhabitants of Shushan ( Susa ), rich and poor, with a separate drinking feast for the women organised by the Queen Vashti in the pavilion of the Royal courtyard.

* Nehemiah, the Jewish cup-bearer to Artaxerxes I at Susa, is given permission by Artaxerxes to return to Jerusalem as governor of Judea, in order to rebuild parts of it ( Nehemiah 2: 5 – 8 ).

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

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

The Koine Greek word Ιουδαϊζω being translated here occurs once in the Septuagint, in Esther 8: 16 – 17 written around 200 BC in Susa, Persia:

North of Khuzestan is one of the oldest parts of the world civilization, Dezful Choghamish hills with more than 8, 000 years of treasures from different periods and archaeologists have called on the city of dawn. Susa Zanbil temple symbolizes the people of knowledge in this area over 3000 years ago. Apadana Palace, symbol of the greatness of the Iranian, Shushtar waterfalls symbol of Iranian engineering and technology, Dezful Old Bridge, symbol of Persian authority, Cole Farah izeh symbol of nobility of the people & etc.

In an attempt to craft a lasting harmony between his Macedonian and Persian subjects, he took an oath of unity before 9, 000 Persian and Greek soldiers at Opis, he married Statira ( the daughter of Darius ) and held a mass marriage of his senior officers to Persian and other noblewomen at Susa just prior to coming to Opis.

The descent lies through the Cenis valley to Susa ( 49. 9 km / 37 mi from Modane ) where the road joins the railway.

By the time of Herodotus ( c. 475 BC ), the Royal Road of the Persian Empire ran some 2, 857 km from the city of Susa on the Karun ( 250 km east of the Tigris ) to the port of Smyrna ( modern İzmir in Turkey ) on the Aegean Sea.

In their final advance, the Brazilians reached Turin and then on 2 May they joined up with French troops at the border in Susa.

In chapter 2, she describes man's gradual domination of women, starting with the statue of a female Great Goddess found in Susa, and eventually the opinion of ancient Greeks like Pythagoras who wrote, " There is a good principle that created order, light and man and a bad principle that created chaos, darkness and woman.

Mounted couriers could travel 1, 677 miles ( 2, 699 km ) in seven days ; the journey from Susa to Sardis took ninety days on foot.

: 1 ° Cuneo, 2 ° Mondovi, 3 ° Torino ( Susa ), 4 ° Torino ( Chivasso ), 5 ° Como, 6 ° Treviso, 7 ° Udine