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Russian archaeologists found unknown 4000-year-old city in southern Iraq

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Russian archaeologists found unknown 4000-year-old city in southern Iraq


24.06.2021

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An unknown 4000-year-old was found in Mesopotamia by Russian archaeologists who are excavating in southern Iraq, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper reports.

Russian archaeologists have determined that the discovered settlement was located near the ancient city of Telle Dehaila from the middle of the 2nd to the 1st millennium BC. According to Shahmardan Amirov, a scientist from the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an important scientific discovery was that the area in which the Russians work was inhabited until the early Iron Age, and not only in the Old Babylonian period, as it was believed before.

This is confirmed, in particular, by the found arrowhead, which, experts believe, belongs to the early Iron Age. A port was found during the excavations, as well as parts of a palace-temple wall about four meters wide.

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