Ancient City Discovered Buried Beneath Mound in Iraq

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient city called Idu, hidden beneath a mound in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, which is thought to have thrived between 3,300 and 2,900 years ago. The remains of the city were found as part of a mound which rises about 10 metres above the surrounding plain, upon which a modern-day village called Satu Qala now sits. The earliest remains date back to Neolithic times when farming first appeared in the Middle East and the area was under control of the Assyrian Empire. Idu would have been used to administer the surrounding territory, The excavations first took place in 2010 and 2011 but the findings have only just been reported in the most recent edition of the journal Anatolica. "Very few archaeological excavations had been conducted in Iraqi Kurdistan before 2008," said Cinzia Pappi, an archaeologist at the Universität Leipzig in Germany. “Conflicts in Iraq over the past three decades have made it difficult to work there.



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