https://www.timothymatney.net/blog daily 0.75 2025-09-26 https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/finishing-up-work-at-qazi-gol monthly 0.5 2025-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/5d8af1e9-a929-45e1-b40d-24c5789e192d/IMG_5920.JPG Blog - Finishing up work at Qazi Gol. - Make it stand out Refeeq instructing Ali on how how to balance the FM-256 gradiometer. He is standing on a plastic box to raise the instrument as far as possible above the ground where subsurface interference can make it hard to balance. They are both magnet-free! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/b7e8a5b8-a630-41c6-be79-c99e88c43fef/IMG_5943.JPG Blog - Finishing up work at Qazi Gol. - Make it stand out The end of data collection at Qazi Gol on the last day of the fieldwork. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/1ede8d83-a9a9-4386-820e-eadac3904099/IMG_5940.JPG Blog - Finishing up work at Qazi Gol. - Make it stand out It’s hard to see the elevation change. In this mid-morning photo I was able to use the shadows to highlight the depth of the pond which is about 4 m at its maximum now. We don’t know how deep it was originally excavated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/aab17514-6894-4898-9f72-fede76fdd63c/NDRC1497.JPG Blog - Finishing up work at Qazi Gol. - Make it stand out Topo plan of Qazi Gol. Blue is low elevation and white is high elevation. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/a-walk-in-erbil monthly 0.5 2025-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/d1f79b0a-66ee-4b6f-939a-23c9ee9a6990/IMG_5874.JPG Blog - A walk in Erbil - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/5089142d-21b5-4048-bb2a-d12c6f94cf17/IMG_5876.JPG Blog - A walk in Erbil - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/d57b8c64-e044-4201-a0f9-bba480bb6eaf/IMG_5871.JPG Blog - A walk in Erbil - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/807decfd-50b5-4faa-a71a-38b2eff6ac32/IMG_5883.JPG Blog - A walk in Erbil - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/75ab2aa6-4e68-49a7-abd5-94a7340d0d23/IMG_5887.JPG Blog - A walk in Erbil - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/bc1a0250-e351-48b1-87c4-39056779dc80/IMG_5873.JPG Blog - A walk in Erbil - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/7efe3d1f-d10b-4ebe-a3bc-6e26b603729a/IMG_5881.JPG Blog - A walk in Erbil - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/f2c0f48c-2e34-4e45-8a29-decb167d35fe/IMG_5884.JPG Blog - A walk in Erbil - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/397296d6-d933-43fe-90a2-8234efedd840/IMG_5886.JPG Blog - A walk in Erbil - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/bd476ed1-45b1-467a-9b43-72d20944138f/IMG_5878.JPG Blog - A walk in Erbil - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/b5e898c3-fd59-4202-821c-8b1daa040367/IMG_5885.JPG Blog - A walk in Erbil - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/whats-in-a-name monthly 0.5 2025-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/d9b1e70f-a22b-4c21-a0fa-2308510bd18e/IMG_4639.JPG Blog - What’s in a name? - Make it stand out The mound at Girdi Tandura. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/some-results-from-site-292 monthly 0.5 2025-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/b4eaa137-57dc-454e-885e-fb92b319151e/Kharaba+Farsa+%28292%29+Geophyiscs+Interpretation+tracks++metal+poles.jpg Blog - Some results from Site 292. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/d6b8b18f-dabb-42cb-aeca-b404d64956d4/Kharaba+Farsa+%28292%29+Geophyiscs+Interpretation+ancient.jpg Blog - Some results from Site 292. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/07e7c1dd-164d-45d0-997a-c61df197e348/Kharaba+Farsa+%28292%29+Geophyiscs+readings+only.jpg Blog - Some results from Site 292. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/a3e1ffd0-9597-4285-a8e9-ffcbd6b696b8/Kharaba+Farsa+%28292%29+Geophyiscs+Interpretation+modern+tracks.jpg Blog - Some results from Site 292. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/we-are-not-alone monthly 0.5 2025-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/ede5d9fb-ac43-4366-b79d-e2271e09839e/IMG_5782.jpg Blog - We are not alone. - Make it stand out Shepherd moving his flock. The goats are in the lead, and sheep follow. Check out those goat ears! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/4377e781-adfa-431d-8f8f-93229eec4ea5/IMG_5778.JPG Blog - We are not alone. - Make it stand out Possible field bindweed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/ef392b6b-7363-4631-917b-cfc3433ca0a7/IMG_5773.JPG Blog - We are not alone. - Make it stand out Possibly old world mesquite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/72bc679f-c80a-46bc-8081-52f0590c4da7/IMG_5780.jpg Blog - We are not alone. - Make it stand out On the way home from Site 292. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/the-team monthly 0.5 2025-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/9b28fb0d-9e0b-4146-977a-edae76db3698/IMG_5771.JPG Blog - The team. - Make it stand out Salar at Site 292. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/cf9108b5-df7a-4c29-a56b-113ec0459fa5/IMG_5817.JPG Blog - The team. - Make it stand out Ali, Refeeq, and Ahmet at Site 292. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/meet-site-292 monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/2ee370f2-5626-4785-988b-7ae7503cce96/IMG_5772.JPG Blog - Meet Site 292 - Make it stand out Sunrise over Site 292. This is not a pretty site, and it is impossible to avoid the tangle of power lines as the site is bisected by major electrical transmission lines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/042d4dfa-3860-4e4c-a72d-edbb437ffd7c/EPAS+292.jpg Blog - Meet Site 292 - Make it stand out This is the map from which we are starting. The site was identified via satellite imagery by EPAS, and divided into three sectors for surface collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/c3e9143f-c5be-457c-abdb-323fbb7af4c9/IMG_5647.JPG Blog - Meet Site 292 - Make it stand out Site 292 from the road looking to the southwest. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/back-in-erbil-1 monthly 0.5 2025-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/178e76c9-e272-4dd8-8333-5ad4e722d9f6/IMG_5762.JPG Blog - Back in Erbil - Make it stand out Street scene in Erbil early in the morning on the way to work. Erbil is rapidly expanding modern city that is home to roughly a million people. Housing and other infrastructure is being constructed for significant growth as people are drawn to Erbil for work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/57fe0c79-03c5-4b5f-93f4-307b6abbee8b/IMG_5640.JPG Blog - Back in Erbil - Make it stand out View of the Erbil Plain from the top of the ancient site of Girdi Tandura in 2025. The wadi (small river) and irrigated fields on the right of the photo contrast with the dry, brown un-irrigated fields on the right. The plain is a patchwork of these contrasting colors. Water is a major concern today, as it was in the Iron Age. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/the-slow-march-of-science monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/2aec7847-e2bc-41c7-8d61-a5ea39369a1c/Rafeeq+collecitng.JPG Blog - The slow march of science. - Make it stand out Rafeeq collecting gradiometry data at Site 298 (Sirawa). Abdullah (in the background) and I are moving the rope (painted with marks at each meter) that Rafeeq is walking along. Once he finished this line of data, we shift the rope 50cm to the east and he walks back towards Abdullah. The gradiometer beeps at each meter mark. Forty lines of data per grid square. It is pretty hypnotic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/eb6e1236-0bf0-4f71-9916-92b9cd5b7de4/298+interp.jpg Blog - The slow march of science. - Make it stand out Drone image of the work area on Site 298. The northern edge of the site has been badly eroded and much of the site is lost. There is a canal to the north of the site that has moved through time and at one point appears to have come far south and cut into the ancient remains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/4b28d558-3b6b-41b3-bf86-c6973671e201/sunrise.JPG Blog - The slow march of science. - Make it stand out Sunrise over the Erbil Plain on the first day of autumn. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/a-good-cleaning monthly 0.5 2024-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/144b1ac5-9d5a-456f-be82-ef0edc051ab4/Coin_1.JPG Blog - A good cleaning. - Make it stand out SP 00002. Coin before conservation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/45f1460a-4655-46e6-80de-1e9d549074ee/IMG_6414.JPG Blog - A good cleaning. - Make it stand out SP 00002. After cleaning. I used a raking light in this photograph to highlight the imagery on the surface. This is just a candid shot. A formal photograph with normal lighting and a scale will be made, along with a drawing of both sides of the coin. My goal here was to highlight how much can be hidden beneath a good layer of corrosion. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/site-298 monthly 0.5 2024-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/0dec529b-2f3c-47d2-80ed-1bfd670e47be/IMG_4819.JPG Blog - Site #298. - Make it stand out Tara, Bapir, and Rafeeq sharing breakfast in the limited shade at Site #298. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/95142c19-29ef-4d80-8bf5-c4c3e28ce003/data+example.jpg Blog - Site #298. - Make it stand out This is a typical dataset from a 20m x 20m square at Site #298. The white and black features are strong positive or negative magnetic readings. Where we see both a strong positive and strong negative together, we are looking at both ends of a magnet of some type, like in the lower left-hand corner of this image. The large black circle is probably a pit -- ancient or modern is hard to say from this image alone. The smaller black holes are also pits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/732a47f1-2c20-454b-be4e-8b8f9f6415e9/cf64c40e-53e6-4114-b633-7884f9a250bb.JPG Blog - Site #298. - Make it stand out FM-256 gradiometer, me, Rafeeq, and Tara at Site #298. Note that the humans are all dressed for fieldwork in the hot Kurdish sun: hats, long sleeves, as little skin showing as possible. It takes time for visitors to acclimate to working in these conditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/7c5dc2b9-2347-4a5c-ac0d-103eb02882b3/site+298+towards+shemamok.jpg Blog - Site #298. - Make it stand out Site #298 from the south. You can just barely see the ruins of the important Assyrian city of Kilizu (modern Qasr Shemamok) being excavated by a French team. That large mounded site is just behind the modern village on the far left of the photograph. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/cornfields-in-assyria monthly 0.5 2024-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/28bd3b53-5de6-49c8-baee-3655fd4f71e1/Site+285+in+parsley.JPG Blog - Cornfields in Assyria. - Make it stand out Parsley being grown on Site 285. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/0302a337-f3e5-49a4-a2d5-7063e7a2c377/IMG_3829.JPG Blog - Cornfields in Assyria. - Make it stand out Excavations at Kharaba Tawus in 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/dc9784b6-fab6-4706-8e74-49c06a58cee4/IMG_4800.JPG Blog - Cornfields in Assyria. - Make it stand out Kharaba Tawus in 2024. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/a-formal-beginning monthly 0.5 2024-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/b405ddd9-1dac-4afb-ad85-982664150e60/lounging+in+the+araba.jpg Blog - A formal beginning. - Make it stand out Ready to help with heavy purchases in the market. We were only buying plastic bags... maybe next time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/9afe4906-99d1-4931-8936-0f24d2bf4db7/Tim+and+Kaify.jpg Blog - A formal beginning. - Make it stand out Me and Kak Kaify catching up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/264d7ce7-bcdc-407e-b769-4cf98086113e/Erbil+fig+seller.jpg Blog - A formal beginning. - Make it stand out Selling figs in the market. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/back-in-erbil monthly 0.5 2024-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/90676f5a-98b5-4db7-867e-77722207a2f6/unnamed.jpg Blog - Back in Erbil. - Make it stand out I made it to the dig house late on Saturday after a very long flight. First things first, check all the gear and make sure that nothing was broken or lost in transport. Everything looks good. Now, time for a long rest https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/welcome-to-the-sebittu-project-dy8pj-8wkd9-aj57e-8dk4h-6wlj2-98tmh-n4aas-kabyd monthly 0.5 2023-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/a5e9caef-1bdd-470b-9872-cd930dde94de/into+the+pit+blog.jpg Blog - Old tech with a new twist. - Make it stand out Around the side of the kiln is a passage that leads down into the firing chamber, which has two parts. One is the room below the kiln with the grill-like ceiling. This subterranean room conducts the heat up into the kiln. The second part is where Rafeeq is heading in this photo. It is the room where the fire is set. The walls are charred from intense heat. The fire in this chamber will burn for three days, according to Qasim, driving all the remaining water out of the bricks and slightly fusing the clay-mud mixture into a durable, permanent brick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/5e9b7dcb-69ef-4fbb-aaf5-702355749804/clothes+to+burn+blog.jpg Blog - Old tech with a new twist. - Make it stand out This picture might seem oddly out of place, but it is actually quite important. The modern brick kilns use old clothing to soak up the petrol for firing the kilns. For three days, that small chamber will, in essence, be fed gasoline-soaked rags to keep the fire burning hot and even enough to fire the stacked bricks. This process involves no advanced machinery to run; the skill of the brickmaker ensures that the bricks are fired long enough for them to be fully strengthened but not too long that they are ruined in the process. These kilns, like those in ancient times, could be overfired, ruining the bricks and the kiln itself, and creating a hard, spongy mass we call slag. Ruined bricks and pottery are called wasters and when we find wasters at an archaeological site, we know that the ancient inhabitants had used such kilns to make bricks, pottery, metals, or other materials requiring the controlled use of high heat. We were told that the firing of Qasim’s brick kiln was going to happen in the next few days, so stay tuned to see how it all works out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/4a403b87-fc5b-4fd1-9f06-1deb64fb5a55/chaff+in+bricks+blog.jpg Blog - Old tech with a new twist. - Make it stand out The bricks are made with clay dug up in a pit about a kilometer or so away from the kiln, mixed with straw brought in from the fields, and water. You can see that the recipe is pretty variable. The straw helps keep the bricks from cracking during firing and cooling. When they are fired, the straw has been burnt away, but leaves a negative impression on the clay. We see this tell-tale impression on bricks (both fired and sun-dried) dating all the way back to the Neolithic. Old tech! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/fa103469-3782-4052-a858-364f7638f368/bricks+from+moulds+blog.jpg Blog - Old tech with a new twist. - Make it stand out We went to a second nearby kiln that was empty to document the interior of the firing chamber. Below the kiln is a large open space, another entire room, that has a grill-like ceiling leading into the kiln. Here you can see the openings leading from this below-ground firing chamber into the kiln. The bricks were stacked over and on top of the grill openings with enough space between them to allow the passage of hot air between the bricks during firing. This is what Qasim’s kiln looks like when it’s empty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/1eb58ded-9557-4a9c-801f-260bb9d52972/bricks+in+a+row+blog.jpg Blog - Old tech with a new twist. - Make it stand out Here are bricks that have been formed in rough wooden moulds and stacked to let them air and sun dry. Once thoroughly dried, they can be put in the kiln. Putting bricks that still have water in their cores into the kiln causes them to explode upon exposure to high heat. These bricks are laid out on a specially prepared surface made of animal dung and straw that can be pressed into a flat surface to which the bricks don’t stick when still wet. The small pile of material in the left background of this photo is actually a pile of straw ready for use in brick making. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/5d0efcab-5efc-4f15-9940-1c040445a00e/the+kiln+and+workers+blog.jpg Blog - Old tech with a new twist. - Make it stand out We met Qasim and his assistant at their brick kiln, There were in the final process of stacking the kiln with 40,000 sun-dried but not-yet-fired bricks, all made by hand in moulds and ready to be fired. The doorway underneath Qasim (dress in black) leads into the kiln interior but it is blocked with bricks. In fact, the entire structure they are standing on is filled with bricks. They were just putting on the last few rows. Over the following days they would cover all the top bricks with a thick layer of mud plaster, sealing the kiln. Qasim’s assistant has staged bricks next to him that he is handing up six or eight at time to Qasim. On the left are a pile of finished, baked bricks ready for use. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/welcome-to-the-sebittu-project-dy8pj-8wkd9-aj57e-8dk4h-6wlj2-98tmh-n4aas monthly 0.5 2023-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/ff1dfd1f-9e59-4db9-b7ba-8289b1eefa93/incense+burner.jpg Blog - Familiar and not so familiar. - Make it stand out The view shows the broken section of the artifact (the other side is smooth and finished). You can see the red area immediately below the blackened surface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/888b682d-95e8-4964-a515-5e119371be7d/celt1.jpg Blog - Familiar and not so familiar. - Make it stand out Top side of the celt showing careful working of the stone. The artifact is also weathered suggesting at some point it was exposed on the ground surface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/53b6f930-0d58-4f9d-bef0-c5ecdfc2122b/celt2.jpg Blog - Familiar and not so familiar. - Make it stand out Here is the working edge. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/welcome-to-the-sebittu-project-dy8pj-8wkd9-aj57e-8dk4h-6wlj2-98tmh monthly 0.5 2023-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/891ff092-a9bc-411b-8c87-561c971a7906/infant+burial+1.jpg Blog - Unexpected find. - Make it stand out This burial, possible of a neonate was badly disturbed in antiquity and few bones remain intact. The size and fragility of infant bones makes their preservation much less common than adult human bones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/f2491150-f6ff-4538-8d7f-45bf3000e47e/infant+burial+2.jpg Blog - Unexpected find. - Make it stand out This infant burial was also badly disturbed in antiquity. The cut made for the burial was deep and very narrow. In ancient times, infant mortality rates were very high. Although precise figures are not available, some scholars suggest that pre-modern mortality rates were as high as between one-third and half of children not surviving infancy. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/welcome-to-the-sebittu-project-dy8pj-8wkd9-aj57e-8dk4h-6wlj2 monthly 0.5 2023-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/c135ea33-7cc3-44fa-8b3d-77dc819e01c0/magic+school+bus.jpg Blog - Our morning routine. - Make it stand out The dig bus. Comfortably fits eight of us, our driver, and the equipment we need for the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/9eee6009-2396-49ca-bdb7-d5b4f71cb3e9/sunrise.jpg Blog - Our morning routine. - Make it stand out Sunrise on the western Erbil plains. In summer there is a permanent haze in the sky from the oil wells that support the economy of Iraqi Kurdistan. The flames from gas flaring, as well as the dust raised from the baked earth, both contribute to the haze, and make for spectacular sunrises. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/3407f32c-d3d9-4d9a-8888-8db77d6faf7a/ice+man.jpg Blog - Our morning routine. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/97e14fa2-0c25-4cc9-8fc8-4474fd3be277/bread+275.jpg Blog - Our morning routine. - Make it stand out Roadside bakery on the outskirts of Erbil. They open at 3am! There is no menu, just bread. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/welcome-to-the-sebittu-project-dy8pj-8wkd9-aj57e-8dk4h monthly 0.5 2023-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/754485f5-9431-4e07-9b64-69c8bef1706c/Kharaba+Tawuz+aerial+small.jpg Blog - Breaking ground. - Make it stand out Photograph of Kharaba Tawuz taken facing west in the early morning. We took advantage of the low, raking light to create shadows on the site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/93d90131-879f-4dc9-9e5c-7fb6e935078b/mary+digging+drone.jpg Blog - Breaking ground. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/60ead1cb-67bd-4fd9-9124-4787c6664422/275+early+morning.jpg Blog - Breaking ground. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.timothymatney.net/blog/welcome-to-the-sebittu-project-dy8pj-8wkd9-aj57e-8dk4h-97ckf monthly 0.5 2023-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/1291c559-5b3e-4eb4-ad0e-98c6b70da664/DSC_0017.JPG Blog - On the ground. - Make it stand out The survey line moves across the southern field at Site 275. Mary is closest to the camera here and Rafeeq is at the far end of the 20m line. Surface survey is hot, dusty work but it is an important way to figure out what’s below ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/e2a9302d-73a7-4233-8690-becdc1700635/DSC_0010.JPG Blog - On the ground. - Make it stand out Britt and Tara set up the survey grid with tapes and wooden stakes under the careful observation of Gareeb and Mary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ebfd05a8cb4075222c299c/346a1098-e06e-40b6-8205-3c0001488a41/drone+photo.jpg Blog - On the ground. - Make it stand out This is a drone image provided to us by Jason Ur and his EPAS team at Site 275. The contour lines show the elevations at the site with white being high elevations. This images shows our survey points (marked with coordinates) an specific find spots of items on the ground. 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