Archaeologists Uncover 4,000-Year-Old Evidence of Siege Warfare in Ancient Mesopotamia
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Rare Cuneiform Tablets Reveal Final Days of 4,000-Year-Old City in Iraq
Excavation site of Kurd Qaburstan. Credit: JEHAN SHERKO / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 Archaeologists at an ancient site in Iraq have uncovered rare cuneiform tablets, mass graves, and evidence of a large-scale siege nearly 4,000 years old, giving researchers what they call the clearest record yet of Bronze Age urban warfare in the region. The site, Kurd Qaburstan, lies in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq and is believed to be the ancie…
In the plain of Erbil, in the middle of Iraqi Kurdistan, there is a strategic site called Kurd Qaburstan, located between the Upper and Lower Zab rivers. The place, founded in the second millennium before Christ, in the Middle Bronze Age, is probably the ancient state city of Qabra, one of the most important in Mesopotamia.Continue reading...
Archaeologists uncover 4,000-year-old evidence of siege warfare in ancient Mesopotamia
At Kurd Qaburstan, an ancient site in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, archaeologists have uncovered the first substantial group of cuneiform administrative tablets found in the Erbil region, along with evidence of large-scale destruction, mass graves and citywide fortifications. Together, the discoveries are providing one of the clearest archaeological records yet uncovered of siege warfare and urban life during the Middle Bronze Age.
An archaeological excavation led by the University of Central Florida (UCF) in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, in the vicinity of the city of Erbil, has provided a set of physical evidence that forces to rewrite several chapters of the history of ancient Mesopotamia. The fieldwork, developed during two summer seasons of [...]
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