books.google.fr - From the middle of the 3rd millennium BC until the coming of Cyrus the Great, southwestern Iran was referred to in Mesopotamian sources as the land of Elam. A heterogeneous collection of regions, Elam was home to a variety of groups, alternately the object of Mesopotamian aggression, and aggressors themselves;...https://books.google.fr/books/about/The_Archaeology_of_Elam.html?hl=fr&id=mc4cfzkRVj4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Archaeology of Elam