Gundeshapur

Gondēshāpūr was the intellectual center of the Sassanid empire and the home of the Academy of Gundishapur.

Founded by Sassanid king Shapur I, Gundeshapur was home to a teaching hospital, and also comprised a library and a centre of higher learning. It has been identified with extensive ruins south of Shahabad, a village 14 km south-east of Dezful, to the road for Shush, in the present-day province of Khuzestan, southwest Iran. It is not an organised archaeological place as of today, and except of the ruins it is full of remainings like broken ceramics.