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Stuff found in Iraq as IS gets pushed back

  • 29-09-2017 3:03pm
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    the_syco
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    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41390440
    Iraqi archaeologist Faleh Noman, who undertook British Museum training and has been appointed by the Iraqi government to lead assessment of the sites
    It's nice that out of the destruction and war new things have been found. It seems that in certain parts, where IS dug down to find stuff to destroy, they have come across a cave system that wasn't known about. Sadly, IS has destroyed a lot of stuff, but much more is being discovered, some for the first time by westerners. I hope a lot more get's published about the following;
    The focus has been at the western end of the pass - at Qalatga Darband, a site overlooking the Lower Zab River which was discovered in declassified spy satellite imagery from the 1960s.

    Large numbers of carved limestone blocks that lie scattered across the site indicate the presence of substantial remains, while drone imagery suggests the existence of large buried buildings.
    Analysis of surface ceramics suggest that the site can be dated to the 1st and 2nd Centuries BC.

    especially as it sounds like it could be fairly intact.


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