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‘1.5 million-year-old’ hand axes, 850 artifacts unearthed in Iraq’s dried-up lake
Researchers have been exploring Iraq’s Western Desert to decode its geomorphological history and search for traces of early human life. They ...
Hand axes discovered in Iraqi desert may go back 1.5 million years
Ella Egberts (VUB) traveled to Iraq in November and December as part of a pilot project to search for archaeological surface ...
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The Ahwar of Southern Iraq: Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities
The Ahwar of Southern Iraq – also known as the Iraqi Marshlands – are ... Yet the remains of the four ziggurats of Eridu, Uruk and Ur, however eroded, still tower over the desert landscape and provide ...
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Stone axes up to 1.5 million years old find in Iraq
Belgian scientists from the Free University of Brussels (VUB) have announced the results of an expedition in the Iraqi ...