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Shush Castle

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Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Shush Castle
Hours:
Sunday9am - 9:48pm
Monday9am - 9:48pm
Tuesday9am - 9:48pm
Wednesday9am - 9:48pm
Thursday9am - 9:48pm
FridayClosed
Saturday9am - 9:48pm


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. The former French government property was taken over by the Islamic Republic after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. It is now used as a museum. Its best-known holding is a cuneiform tablet inscribed with the Code of Hammurabi, however this is now on display in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. The castle was heavily damaged by Iraqi bombs during the recent Iran–Iraq War, but has since been completely restored by the Iranian government.
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