Book Review: The Elamite World

The Elamite World is one of the specialized and professional books in the field. It first published in 2018 by Routledge, part of Taylor & Francis Group, and their works as a leading publisher champions the knowledge-maker. This one-volume edition has put together the scientific achievements of a group of 40 International specialist scholars, in order to present a verifiable, comprehensive, Controlled, illustrated, and contemporary account of the Elamite civilization. It contains the complete text of 41 articles. The Elamite World includes an introduction along with eight parts, which cover a range of various topics such as physical environment, historical development, languages, people, material and spiritual culture, as well as the heritage of Elam in the Achaemenid Empire and its presence in the modern world. Javier Álvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello, Yasmina Wicks, three editors of this book, are well-thinking and creative scholars who devoted most of their lifetime of research to the civilization of Elam.There is absolutely no doubt that Elam was one of the highly powerful, long-lasting and advanced civilizations of the Iranian plateau before the arrival of the Aryans.