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Dollie Eanna Indigostar
As the waters of the Mosul dam reservoir in northern Iraq receded last fall, they revealed a stunning sight: a Bronze Age palace, many of its mud-brick walls and carefully planned rooms remarkably preserved.
The site, known as Kemune, has been known to researchers since 2010, when the reservoir had previously shrunk. The area had first flooded in the 1980s, when the Mosul Dam was constructed. But not until a drought hit the region last year did the water retreat enough for archaeologists to excavate.
When they did, they found not only the palace’s walls and rooms, but the remains of bright blue and red murals and cuneiform clay tablets, which are being translated. The expedition could shed light on a little-known empire that dominated the region from approximately 1500 to 1350 B.C.
The University of Tübingen in Germany and the Kurdistan Archaeology Organization announced the discovery Thursday, and a lead archaeologist, Hasan Ahmed Qasim, called it “one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the region in recent decades."
Author By Kayla Epstein
June 30, 2019 at 7:16 p.m. GMT+1
READ MORE .. @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/06/30/drought-revealed-palace-thousands-years-old-submerged-an-iraq-reservoir/
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