He became the ancestor of a proud and powerful tribe, the Elamites, who held extensive area s east of Persia. (Everyone in the Bible, by WilliamP. Barker, 1966) He is the ancestor of those in Iraq/Babylon/Persian Gulf. (Internet) The founder of the Elamites, which people were known to the Babyloniansas the Elamtu, to th e Greeks as Elymais, and whom the Romans knew as Elymaei. The Elamites recorded their own na me as the Haltamti. Subsequently, the Old Persian inscriptions rendered their name as (h)uju, and the Middle Persian inscriptions speak of huz, which is simply the archaic form of the mod ern Persian name for Khuzistan, which now covers what used to be the land of Elam. (Internet :www.biblebelievers.org.au/nation01.htm)