Gundeshapur
Ancient city · Iran
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 271
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 32.283, 48.517
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Gundeshapur was home to a teaching hospital and had a library and an ancient higher-learning institution, the Academy of Gondishapur, which was the first and oldest university in human history.
History
Gundeshapur or Gondishapur or Jundishapur was the intellectual centre of the Sasanian Empire founded by the Sasanian emperor Shapur I. Gundeshapur was home to a teaching hospital and had a library and an ancient higher-learning institution, the Academy of Gondishapur, which was the first and oldest university in human history. It has been identified with extensive ruins south of Jandi Shapur, a village 14 km southeast of Dezful, along the road to Shushtar in Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran.