Cambyses was briefly set up a king of Babylon, but he soon ran into trouble with the traditionalists, as he insisted on wearing
Elamite dress during an ancient ritual whereby he was to grasp the hands of the gods Nabu and Marduk.
He was able to confirm this development by comparing the Manding and the
Elamite languages, and the Sumerian and Dravidian languages.
Rawlinson (1810-1895), starting from 1835, the latter considered by Budge (1925: 30-31; 52) as being "the Father of Assyiorology." The
Elamite variety of cuneiform writing (at Susa) was in its basics deciphered by Edwin Norris (1795-1872) in 1853; and the recognition of the Akkadian script (Mesopotamian: Assyrian-Babylonian) occurred after Nineveh (Assyria) and Babylon (Babylonia) were rediscovered by the English travelers C.
The Naramsin stele and the also discussed Codex Hammurabi [eighteenth century BC] were found in Susa, where an
Elamite army had taken them in the twelfth century BC.
Following on
Elamite and Amorite invasions a Babylonian nation arose that lasted almost 1 000 years, characterised by cultural development under great kings like Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC).
According to Rashidi, when the Assyrians took over the capital Susa in 639 BC, they attempted to destroy it completely by "the looting and razing of temples, the destruction of sacred groves, the desecration of royal tombs, the seizure of
Elamite gods, the removal of royal memorials and the deportation of people, livestock and even rubble from the devastated city".
A figure of what is probably an
Elamite king, recovered from the acropolis of Susa, now in southwestern Iran, belongs to the 11th century BC.
We know that the Middle East of 5000 years ago was using a variety of unrelated languages, Hurrian, Egyptian, Sumerian,
Elamite, Hittite, and Akkadian, where for the last 1000 years there has been nothing but Arabic and Persian.
A number of isolates are SOV including Basque and a number of languages in the Asian linguistic area: Burushaski, Ket (SOV/SVO), Gilyak (Nivkh), Yukaghir, and several ancient languages: Sumerian, Hurrian and Urartian, and
Elamite.
This stele, like many that decorated Babylonian cities, was removed to Susa by
Elamite invaders in the twelfth century BC when they sacked Babylon.
Winters (1985a, 1985d, 1989, 1991) also used this method to confirm the unity between the African, the Dravidian, the
Elamite and the Sumerian languages.
The stele originally stood in the town of Sippar, some 30 miles upstream from Babylon, but an invading
Elamite force plundered the city and carried away the stele as spoil.
Above all if he gets elected it will be a poke in the eye to any nationalist Disy candidate or
Elamite that gets through.
