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The settlement, which is thought to be from the Bronze Age was found after a certain area in the Tigris River dried up, allowing the city to be excavated before the dam filled up again.
A team of German and Kurdish archaeologists has uncovered a 3,400-year-old city from the time of the Mittani Empire on the Tigris, which had emerged from the waters of the Mosul reservoir. This was made possible because the water level in the lake ha
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