Monday, 1 September 2025 () Khanke, Iraq (AFP) Aug 30, 2025
Archaeologists in drought-hit Iraq have discovered 40 ancient tombs after water levels in the country's largest reservoir declined, an antiquities official said Saturday. The tombs, believed to be over 2,300 years old, were unearthed at the edges of the Mosul Dam reservoir in the Khanke region of Duhok province in the country's north. "So far, we have discovered approximately 40 tombs,"