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In December 2009, an international congress was held at Ghent University in order to investigate, exactly 20 years after the 36th RAI “Mésopotamie et Elam”, the present state of our knowledge of the Elamite and Susean society from archaeological, philological, historical and geographical points of view. The multidisciplinary character of this congress illustrates the present state of research in the socio-economic, historical and political developments of the Suso-Elamite region from prehistoric times until the great Persian Empire. Because of its strategically important location between the Mesopotamian alluvial plain and the Iranian highlands and its particular interest as point of contact between civilizations, Susa and Elam were of utmost importance for the history of the ancient Near East in general.

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Katrien De Graef, Ph.D. (2004) in Assyriology, Ghent University, is Research Fellow with the Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders. She has published extensively on 2nd millennium BC socio-economic history of Susa, including two MDP volumes on the tablets excavated by Ghirshman. Jan Tavernier, Ph.D. (2002) in Oriental Studies, University of Leuven, is currently Chargé de Cours at the Centre d'Etudes Orientales Université Catholique de Louvain. His research domains are Elamite and Iranian languages and history, history of the Achaemenid Empire and Language History of the First Millennium B.C., domains on which he has published frequently, inter alia Iranica in the Achaemenid period (ca. 550-330 B.C.). Lexicon of Old Iranian proper names and loanwords, attested in non-Iranian texts (2007).

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