On the 20th May, the Tech4Heritage team arrived in Mosul in the north of Iraq for the third training workshop in the series. The workshop is being delivered in partnership with the University of Mosul, the city museum and UNESCO.
The trainees had the ‘best classroom ever‘ (Ivan Erhel) for their fieldwork on site at Ninevah.
A cuneiform inscription on one of the walls at Ninevah.
Training took place in the museum of Nassiriyah. Field session took place in Ur, ancient capital of Mesopotamia, where there is the Great Ziggurat of Ur and the Royal cemetery.
Training in Mosul took place in the University of archeology of Mosul. Most exercises were made on random objects. Field session took place in Bab Maska, one of the doors of the Antique city of Ninivae.
During our workshops on the site of the ancient city of Babylon, trainees worked on parts of the processional way monuments and pavement bricks. Field session took place in Borsippa.