Shush Castle, Shush

Name: Shush Castle
Address: Imam Khomeini Ave, Shush, Iran

#1 among attractions in Shush

Museum, Top attraction, Historical place, Forts and castles

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Shush Castle is located in the ruins of the ancient city of Susa in the Khuzestan Province of Iran. It was constructed by French archaeologist Jean-Marie Jacques de Morgan in the late 1890s, as a secure base for archaeological exploration and excavation. The Castle is similar to medieval monuments in France. The structure was built by local craftsmen with bricks taken from two other archaeological sites, the Achaemenid Darius/Dariush castle and the Elamite Choqazanbil ziggurat. It is built atop a hill which may contain other relics of past times. It is an example of the pre-scientific era of archaeology, when explorers mutilated or destroyed sites in the process of examining them. ()

Local name: قلعه شوش Coordinates: 32°11'25"N, 48°14'49"E

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Imam Khomeini AveShush Iran

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Shush Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Tomb of Daniel, Susa.

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Sacred and religious sites, Mausoleum
Tomb of Daniel, Shush
5 min walk • The Tomb of Daniel is the traditional burial place of the biblical figure Daniel. Various locations have been named for the site, but the tomb in Susa, in Iran, is the most widely accepted site, it being first mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela, who visited Asia between 1160 and 1163.
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Susa, Shush
18 min walk • Susa was an ancient city in the lower Zagros Mountains about 250 km east of the Tigris, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers in Iran. One of the most important cities of the Ancient Near East, Susa served as the capital of Elam and the Achaemenid Empire, and remained a strategic centre during the Parthian and Sasanian periods.