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Iraq’s archaeological discoveries have shaped understanding of human civilisation – but its scientists have been sidelined

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par Jaafar Jotheri, Professor of Landscape Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Al-Qadisiyah; Durham University
Claudia Glatz, Professor of Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow
Daniel Calderbank, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Glasgow

In recent years, archaeologists from around the world have marked the centenaries of some of Iraq’s most influential archaeological discoveries.

The excavation of the ancient city of Ur, for example, transformed understanding of early urban life, long-distance trade, royal tombs and burial customs. There has also been a century of research into the Jemdet Nasr period – pivotal in the development of some of the world’s earliest administrative systems…

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