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

KHANKE, Iraq: Archaeologists in drought-hit Iraq have discovered 40 ancient tombs after water levels in the country’s largest reservoir declined, an antiquities official said on…

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