AN ANCIENT palace-city built by a mysterious civilisation lost to history has vanished. Rising water levels submerged Iraq’s lakeside Kemune – a 3,500-year-old archaeological marvel first discovered ...

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Kurdish and German archaeologists resumed excavations of an ancient city that had been previously submerged under the waters of the Mosul Dam reservoir. Sometimes, as the saying goes, every cloud has ...

AN ANCIENT 3,400-year-old palace has been found in a reservoir after water levels dropped because of a drought. The discovery of the ruins in the Mosul Dam reservoir on the banks of the Tigris River ...

The 3,400-year-old ruins on the former banks of the Tigris River are providing new insights into the history of the Mitanni Empire. In January of this year, prolonged drought caused the waterline in ...