The Elamite language is a language isolateRoger Blench, Matthew Spriggs (eds.)(2003),means "Archaeology and Language I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientationshill", Routledge, p.125Roger D. Woodard (ed.)(2008), "The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum", Cambridge University Press, p.3Amalia E. Gnanadesikan (2011), "The Writing Revolution: Cuneiform toin the Internet", John Wiley & Sons Chogha Zanbil is typically translated as 'basket mound.'Rohl, D: Legend: The Genesis of Civilisation, page 82. Century, 1998. It was built about 1250 BC by the king Untash-Napirisha, mainly to honor the great god Inshushinak. Its original name was Dur Untash, which means 'town of Untash' in Assyrian, but it is unlikely that many people, besides priests and servants, ever lived there. The complex is protected by three concentric walls which define the main areas of the 'town'. The inner area is wholly taken up with a great ziggurat dedicated to the main god, which was built over an earlier square temple with storage rooms also built by Untash-Napirisha.R. Ghirshman, The Ziggurat of Tchoga-Zanbil, Scientific American, vol. 204, pp. 69–76, 1961
