TEHRAN -- Two experts of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization are visiting Susa in the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan, to weigh registering the capital of ancient Elam on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
The director and representative the UNESCO Cluster Office in Tehran, Esther Kuisch Laroche and UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education Qian Tang, arrived in Susa on Wednesday and will visit various parts of the ancient site in three-day program, the Persian service of IRNA reported on Wednesday.
The Deputy director of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization, Mohammad-Hassan Talebian, and Khuzestan Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Department Director Afshin Heidari are accompanying the experts during the visit.
Iran’s application for registering Susa on the UNESCO’s list will be discussed in a UNESCO meeting in 2015.
Susa also includes the Haft-Tappeh site, Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat, the Shush Castle and several other sites.
The Code of Hammurabi, a stele bearing the most complete and perfect extant collection of Babylonian laws developed during the reign of Hammurabi (1792–1750 BC), was discovered near the Shush Castle in 1901 by French Orientalist Jean-Vincent Scheil. It is now preserved in the Louvre.
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