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  2. Archaeological looting - Wikipedia

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    A looter's pit (left) at the ancient Sumerian city of Kish, Iraq. Fragments of pottery (right) are scattered near the pit. Archaeological looting is the illicit removal of artifacts from an archaeological site. Such looting is the major source of artifacts for the antiquities market. [1]

  3. List of archaeological sites by country - Wikipedia

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    Chang'an, an ancient capital; Chengtoushan; Daming Palace National Heritage Park; Gallery road; Huoluochaideng, city-site with mints and coin-hoards; Jiahu; Lajia; Peking Man, site at Zhoukoudian near Beijing; Sanxingdui; Terracotta Army, near Xian; Tianlongshan Grottoes; Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King, Guangzhou; Yinxu

  4. Archaeological looting in Iraq - Wikipedia

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    The upper surface of Yasin Tepe ancient mound, innumerable looters' pits. Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. Most of these were dug in the 1990s. A looter's pit (left) at the ancient Sumerian city of Kish, Iraq. Fragments of pottery (right) are scattered near the pit. The archeological site of Bakr Awa, an ancient mound near Halabja ...

  5. Ancient towns in Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    The city covers an area of approximately three kilometers by one. The ancient city was inhabited for about eight centuries, and during this period the city fought several wars with the Kingdom of Saba' (c. 8th century B.C. to AD 275), and in AD 228, Imru’ al-Qays fought the city.

  6. Nineveh - Wikipedia

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    Nineveh (/ ˈ n ɪ n ɪ v ə / NIN-iv-ə; Akkadian: 𒌷𒉌𒉡𒀀, URU NI.NU.A, Ninua; Biblical Hebrew: נִינְוֵה, Nīnəwē; Arabic: نَيْنَوَىٰ, Naynawā; Syriac: ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ, Nīnwē [1]), also known in early modern times as Kouyunjik, was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq.

  7. Dumat al-Jandal - Wikipedia

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    The city stood north of the Nafud desert and at one end of Wadi Sirhan, at a major intersection of ancient trade routes part what is known as the incense route, with one branch linking the various sources of valuable goods in India and southern Arabia with Babylon, and another linking the Persian Gulf through Wadi Sirhan with southern Syria. [2]

  8. Arpad, Syria - Wikipedia

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    Arpad (Old Aramaic: 𐡀𐡓𐡐𐡃, romanized: ʾRPD; Biblical Hebrew: אַרְפַּד, romanized: ʾArpaḏ or אַרְפָּד, ʾArpāḏ; [1] modern Tell Rifaat, Syria) was an ancient Aramaean Syro-Hittite city located in north-western Syria, north of Aleppo.

  9. List of Phoenician cities - Wikipedia

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    Fortress city protecting the trade route to Anatolia; Karatepe; Finike - historically known as Phoenicus; Rhosos - according Malalas chronograpyh that city was founded by Cilix, son of Agenor the Phoenician King.