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Archaeological digs unearths new details of 4,000-year-old city in Iraq

An Iraqi-Russian team accomplished the first soundings of a previously unexcavated ancient settlement about 4,000 years old in Iraq's Dhi Qar governorate.
Shahmardnan Amirov, the project co-director, at work on the sounding with the Iraqi official representative Amjad Neama.

An Iraqi-Russian team of archaeologists completed on April 29 the first archaeological soundings of a previously unexcavated ancient settlement about 4,000 years old in Dhi Qar governorate in southern Iraq.

The Dhi Qar governorate is home to more than 1,200 archaeological sites, including Ur with its great Ziggurat dating from the Sumerian period.

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