The painted markings are typical of military checkpoints and official buildings in Iraq ... of mud-brick walls and slowly climbing as we crossed the city. A hot wind kicked up ancient soil.

Archeologists say a 3,400-year-old city was uncovered in Iraq after extreme ... upper parts of the walls buried the buildings," the university added. Now, the ancient city is "completely submerged ...

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery of thousands of cuneiform tablets at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu in southern Iraq ... the pattern of possible walls on Tablet Hill.