[HN Gopher] Discovery of 4,500-year-old palace in Iraq may hold ...
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       Discovery of 4,500-year-old palace in Iraq may hold key to ancient
       civilisation
        
       Author : pseudolus
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2023-02-19 19:56 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | wanderingstan wrote:
       | Related: I was introduced to Sumerian history by this excellent
       | episode of the "Fall of Civilizations Podcast":
       | https://youtu.be/d2lJUOv0hLA
        
       | mdni007 wrote:
       | It's gonna be destroyed once statues are found inside
        
         | howitczar wrote:
         | They hit the Ziggurat near Nasaria, Iraq with a rocket and the
         | people responsible proceeded to be wiped off the map by the
         | locals. So probably not going to be too much of an issue there.
        
       | mvdwoord wrote:
       | "Graham Hancock?... Paging Mr Hancock"
       | 
       | Anyway, finding new old (yes!) stuff is always awesome. And it
       | makes me wonder about all the things we will never find, as it is
       | destroyed. And what we make now, and how fragile it is...
        
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