"According to initial speculation, the city could be the capital of a state founded following the political collapse at the end of the ancient Babylonian era, which caused the systematic destruction of the Sumerian civilisation’s urban life,” the head of the Russian excavation, Alexei Jankowski-Diakonoff, told Al-Monitor. The find joins a list of more than 1,200 archaeological sites in the region-some yet to be excavated-in what was once part of the delta of Mesopotamia, often referred to as "the cradle of civilisation". According to the Middle Eastern news site Al-Monitor, a group of Russian archaeologists and Iraqi colleagues made the discovery on 24 June in the Tell Duhaila area in Dhi Qar governorate, around 30km from the ancient city of Ur. An ancient urban settlement believed to date back to pre-Babylonian times has been uncovered in a desert in southern Iraq.
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