Elam

Elam, a district mentioned in Scripture, lying south of Assyria and east of Persia proper, apparently the same as the Susiana of Strabo. Its chief city, Susa (Shushan), early attained great importance in Mesopotamia. It appears that the primitive Semitic Elamites were overcome at an early period by a Hamitic or Cushite race from Babylon, called by the Greeks Cosseans.