An ancient little-known language isolate spoken in SW Persia.
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- Elamite Scripts Illustrated survey of the three known scripts used for writing Elamite.
- Encyclopaedia of the Orient - Elamite Short entry on the Elamite language (with map), including its history.
- Elam between Assyriology and Iranian Studies Paper by the Italian scholar Gian Pietro Basello. It outlines the history of Elamite studies, including an extensive bibliography.
- Breakthrough in world’s oldest undeciphered writing The BBC reports on the work at Oxford University to understand Proto-Elamite, a writing system developed in an area that is now in south-western Iran.