Susa was the capital city of Elam. It is located in Mesopotamia, on the Ulai
River. Susa was occupied for 5,000 years. Archeological work has existed on
the site for 100 years. The site has yielded Elamite inscriptions, Old
Akkadian texts, Sumerian Ur III texts, and a number of legal texts, including
the Codex Hammurabi.
A. Leo Oppenheim, Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
415-16 (Univ. of Chicago Press 1964, 1977).