Drought in Iraq unearths more than 2,000 years old tombs | Drought News

The newly discovered tombs are believed to date back to the Hellenistic or Hellenistic-Seleucid period.

Archaeologists in drought-hit Iraq have discovered 40 ancient tombs after water levels in the country’s largest reservoir declined, according to an antiquities official.

The tombs, believed to be more than 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…