Eshnunna - Archaeology

Archaeology

The remains of the ancient city are now preserved in the mound of Tell Asmar, near Baqubah, excavated in six seasons between 1930 and 1936 by an Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago team led by Henri Frankfort with Thorkild Jacobsen and Seton Lloyd.

Despite the long passage of time since the excavations at Tell Asmar, the work of examining and publishing the remaining finds from that dig continues to this day. These finds include roughly 1500 cuneiform tablets.

In the late 1990s, Iraqi archaeologists worked at Tell Asmar. The results from that excavation have not yet been published.

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