5,000-year-old monumental building in Iraq reveals ties to the world’s first cities

5,000-year-old monumental building in Iraq reveals ties to the world’s first cities

A monumental structure has been discovered in northern Iraq by archaeologists, dating back 5,000 years and potentially rewriting how the world’s first cities interacted with surrounding regions. The findings were made at the Kani Shaie site in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate and date to the Uruk period, roughly 3300–3100 BCE, when early urban civilization was forming […]