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Shush
Castle
(French:
Château
de
Suse)
is
located
in
the
ruins
of
the
ancient
city
of
Susa
(Shush)
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
(in
Persian:"tappeh")
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
it
was
stolen
and
now
is
on
display
in
the
Louvre
Museum
in
Paris,
France.
The
castle
was
heavily
damaged
by
Iraqi
bombs
during
the
IRAN–Iraq
War
(1980-1988)
but
has
since
been
completely
restored
by
the
Iranian
government.
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