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Duhok excavations reveal five ancient settlement layers

📍 Erbil, Iraq, IQ·🕐 7d ago·1 outlet

Shafaq News- Duhok Archaeologists in Duhok, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq,have uncovered five ancient settlement layers at Tell Gombass, a site affected by fluctuating waterlevels at Mosul Dam, the province's Antiquities Directorate announced onSaturday. Bekas Brifkani, director of Duhok's Antiquities Directorate,told Shafaq News that the layers date from the late fourth to the early thirdmillennium BC, marking the transition from the Late Chalcolithic period to theEarly Bronze Age. The excavations revealed mudbrick buildings, storagefacilities, an oven, clay sealings and the remains of a…

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