College of Archaeology

 The Department of Ancient Iraqi Languages in the College of Archeology conducted a scientific field visit that included several archaeological sites in Dohuk Governorate on Tuesday/ 3/2024. The students as a group where headed by the Dean of the College, Professor Dr. Yasmine Abdel, visited the archaeological site of the city of Khans in the district of Sheikhan, where the Assyrian king Sin-Akhi-Ariba (Sennacherib) (704-681 BC) began his irrigation project by digging a water canal to bring water from the Kumel River and several other sources of water to his Assyrian capital Nineveh, more than 2,700 years ago. The students of undergraduate and postgraduate studies saw the towering sculptural scenes immortalized by the king in more than one place on the edges of the mountains there. The second stop of the visit was to the Dohuk Cultural Museum, and the students listened to a detailed explanation of the museum’s assets in the main exhibition hall and the talk was facilitated by the Director of the Inspection in Dohuk, Dr. (Bex Jamal al-Din Hassan Al-Muharram), whose history extends from the Mesolithic Age to the end of the Ottoman Era, the third and final stop of the visit was to the site of the Fayda Archaeological Park, which includes a huge irrigation canal and a group of rock sculptures that were carved along the water canal. The Deanship of the College of Archeology at the University of Mosul extends its sincere thanks to Dr. Bekah S. Jamal al-Din Hassan for his warm reception from the first stop of the scientific visit and his accompaniment of the students and teaching staff participating in the visit to the last stop.