A short surface survey carried out in November 2018 at Nineveh produced a first report on the damage caused by Daesh between 2016 and 2017 to the walled compound of the Neo-Assyrian capital. Hundreds of trenches excavated as anti-aircraft stations have been recorded on the walls built by Sennacherib, and 11 enormous illegal, ruinous trenches are now visible in the inner lower town, apparently dug for storing foodstuffs and other important goods, in the certainty that the archaeological area would not have been bombed by the coalition forces. On the disturbed surface near the largest of these trenches were found Lower and Middle Palaeolithic cores, flakes and tools, brought to light when Daesh excavators impacted the local conglomerate beds, c. 3.5–4 m below the present trampling surface.
Daesh granaries and Palaeolithic Nineveh
Massimo Vidale
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2020
Abstract
A short surface survey carried out in November 2018 at Nineveh produced a first report on the damage caused by Daesh between 2016 and 2017 to the walled compound of the Neo-Assyrian capital. Hundreds of trenches excavated as anti-aircraft stations have been recorded on the walls built by Sennacherib, and 11 enormous illegal, ruinous trenches are now visible in the inner lower town, apparently dug for storing foodstuffs and other important goods, in the certainty that the archaeological area would not have been bombed by the coalition forces. On the disturbed surface near the largest of these trenches were found Lower and Middle Palaeolithic cores, flakes and tools, brought to light when Daesh excavators impacted the local conglomerate beds, c. 3.5–4 m below the present trampling surface.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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