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Archeologists uncover new Assyrian site in northern Iraq
Al-Arabiya ^ | Tuesday, 02 October 2012 | Al Arabiya

Posted on 10/07/2012 10:09:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

Archeologists working in northern Iraq have discovered a new Assyrian site in the vicinity of the historic Arbil city center, the head of the antiquities office in the Kurdish Province of Arbil, Haydar Hassan, was quoted as saying in an Iraqi newspaper.

The Assyrian civilization flourished in northern Iraq between 1000-700 B.C., archeologists were led to discover the site when they exhumed a burial ground, complete with mud brick grave heads.

To further unearth this site the foreign archeological team had to study and remove two more layers of civilization under which the Assyrian structure was buried, according to a report published by Iraq's al-Zaman on Monday.

The excavations have shown that the Assyrian graves were covered by remains belonging to the Sassanid Persian Dynasty that ruled Iraq before being dislodged by Muslim Arab tribes from the Arabian desert in the 7th century A.D., said Haydar Hassan.

So far only the brick arches and corridors of the Assyrian layer have been brought to the surface.

Although archaeological teams from Italy, the U.S., Germany, Holland, Poland and Greece are currently working in northern Iraq, Hassan did not say which foreign archaeologists were working on the newly discovered Assyrian site in Arbil.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.alarabiya.net ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: assyrians; godsgravesglyphs; iraq; kurdistan
The Assyrian civilization flourished in northern Iraq between 1000-700 B.C., archeologists were led to discover the site when they exhumed a burial ground, complete with mud brick grave heads. (Photo courtesy ezinemark.com)

The Assyrian civilization flourished in northern Iraq between 1000-700 B.C., archeologists were led to discover the site when they exhumed a burial ground, complete with mud brick grave heads. (Photo courtesy ezinemark.com)

1 posted on 10/07/2012 10:09:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Make it a great week, all.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


2 posted on 10/07/2012 10:11:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

If it is the Q’uran, we already know it. If it is not in the Q’ran, we don’t need to know it. Burn it.


3 posted on 10/07/2012 10:15:46 AM PDT by healy61
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To: SunkenCiv

Cool another site the great Allah hasn’t found and destroyed yet


4 posted on 10/07/2012 10:16:27 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: SunkenCiv

I was doing my Genealogy and according to Ancestry.com I went back 80 generations. Some of these records are quite amazing. It really makes you wonder how these people lived.


5 posted on 10/07/2012 10:21:52 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Assyrians were bad, bad dudes. But that didn’t stop the Lord from trying to save them.


6 posted on 10/07/2012 11:14:01 AM PDT by kenavi (Obama doesn't hate private equity. He wants to be it with our money.)
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To: SunkenCiv

AWESOME!

I have some ancestors going back into Egypt and Iraq, but the records are scanty, once one is no longer part of the Royalty, in any country.


7 posted on 10/07/2012 11:58:41 AM PDT by Monkey Face (A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind.)
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To: SunkenCiv

A couple of years ago British Top Gear’s Christmas special was the “three wise men” motoring from Arbil to Bethlehem. Lots of jokes about the dangers of Iraq and body armor until it became plain that Kurdistan is actually quite safe. Of course, they did not take the direct route . . . .


8 posted on 10/08/2012 1:34:01 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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