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Jaafar Jotheri

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Professor of Landscape Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Al-Qadisiyah
Honorary Research Fellow in Geoarchaeology, Durham University

The early bronze age (21st century BC) Ziggurat of Ur in southern Iraq. Abbas Al Yasiri/Shutterstock

September 2, 2026

Iraq’s archaeological discoveries have shaped understanding of human civilisation – but its scientists have been sidelined

Jaafar Jotheri, University of Al-Qadisiyah; Durham University; Claudia Glatz, University of Glasgow, and Daniel Calderbank, University of Glasgow

The centenaries of some of Iraq’s most influential archaeological discoveries invite reflection about the role of Iraqi scientists.

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