Excavations | Baqarat

Italian Archaeological Mission in Tūlūl al-Baqarat (Iraq)
Tūlūl al-Baqarat (Al-Kut, Iraq)
The mission has been operating since 2013 within the framework of cultural cooperation agreements between Italy and Iraq. It is conducted by the Turin Center for Archaeological Research and Excavations for the Middle East and Asia (CRAST) and by the University of Turin (UniTo) with the grant of the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage of Iraq. Other institutions involved in the project are the Iraq Museum in Baghdad and the Department of Architecture and Design of the Polytechnic of Turin (DAD). The mission is partly financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Italian Republic (MAECI).
The Baqarat area is made up of ten archaeological hills and is located 200 km south-east of Baghdad, in the central-eastern Mesopotamian alluvium. The two main sectors investigated have returned evidence relating to a large rural settlement of the first centuries of the fourth millennium (ancient Uruk / LC2-3) and an important religious center with phases of the third millennium (proto-dynastic period) and the first millennium BC (Neo-Babylonian period)

Direction: Carlo Lippolis

website Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino (italian version)