When archaeologist Simone Mühl returned to the site of her Excavations in last summer, she could hardly believe her eyes. The whole area was under water. When she had last seen it, the low Mound at the center of the site was surrounded by fields of grain. Now fishing boats were anchored around it. "It was a fascinating sight, for I had never seen the mound like that before," she says. Gird-i Shamlu lies in the plain of Shahrizor in...

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