From the web: “Manchester archaeologists defy Isis’ destruction of Iraq’s cultural history by working to preserve memory of historic artefacts”

Archaeologists from the University of Manchester have been excavating a Babylonian administrative centre dating back as far as 1500BC. The compound is located close to the site of the partially reconstructed Ziggurat, a Sumerian temple.

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