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Science 22 March 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5563, pp. 2189 - 2191
DOI: 10.1126/science.295.5563.2189
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Dam Threatens Iraqi Ancient Sites

Andrew Lawler

LONDON--Construction has begun on a Tigris River dam that will flood dozens of important archaeological sites in northern Iraq, including the ancient royal capital of Assyria. A senior Iraqi antiquities official attending a scientific meeting here last week pleaded for international help in salvage excavations, but researchers say there may be too little time and too much politics to save more than a fraction of the Assyrian heartland before the floodwaters finish rising in 2007.

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