Shoosh Castle — Attraction in دهستان حسین آباد

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...

This "castle" constitutes the biggest act of vandalism to an Iranian archaeological site in history. The French destroyed much of the spectacular ancient Achaemenid (Hakhamanesh) ruins of Susa (Shush) and used bricks from the ancient Achaemenid palaces of Darius the Great to make this stupid looking castle. You can still see Old Persian cuneiform writing on the bricks the French stole and used for this castle, but the bricks are rapidly decaying. 6000 years of history is rapidly decaying due to this vandalism. The French destruction of Susa is a bigger catastrophe than the muslim arab invasion of Iran in the mid 600's. Thousands of artifacts were also stolen and taken back to Paris. Iran should sue France for damages and return of the stolen Achaemind artifacts taken from Susa without...

It's an interesting castle. It can be interesting for someone like me who has never seen French castles. But I guess it won't be interesting for a French tourist who have seen more beautiful and bigger castles in France. So among the French castles this one can be counted as non-interesting. It is also called Chateau de Morgan. P.S. The Armenians may think that this is the place where the Sassanians used to imprison the Armenian kings....