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Abdulamir al-Hamdani ……………………………………………………………………………………….……..5 - SUMMARY REPORT ON EXCAVATIONS AT TELL KHAIBER, AN ADMINISTRATIVE CENTRE OF THE SEALAND PERIOD, 2013-2017. Stuart Campbell, Robert Killick, Jane Moon, Daniel Calderbank and Eleanor Robson …………………………. 15 - URUK-WARKA. ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2016 – 2018, PRELIMINARY REPORT. Margarete van Ess With a contribution by Jörg Fassbinder …………………………………………………...….47 - AL-HIRA SURVEY PROJECT – CAMPAIGNS 2015–2018. Martina Müller-Wiener, Martin Gussone, Mohammad Hadi Bidan, Ibrahim Salman, Ulrike Siegel, Burkart Ulrich, Frank Stremke .............................................................................................................................................. 87 - TELLO/GIRSU: FIRST RESULTS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SEASON (AUTUMN 2016). Sebastien Rey, Fatma Yassir Husain, Jon Taylor, Angelo Di Michele, Ashley Pooley, James Fraser, Gareth Brereton, Cordelia Hall, Joanna Skwiercz, Faith Vardy, Hilary McDonald, Faleh Noman & Hayder Idan ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...…..111 - TŪLŪL AL-BAQARAT, MOUND 7 (TB7). PRELIMINARY REPORT - SEASONS 2015-2018. Carlo Lippolis, Eleonora Quirico, Jacopo Bruno, Giulia Ragazzon, Hasanian A. Mohammed, Ahmed S. Kazai, Saadoun K. Shetod, Haydar Taha' and Ali Kamil ………………………………………………………...…….133 - THE IRON AGE DINKA SETTLEMENT COMPLEX NEAR QALADZE (PESHDAR PLAIN) ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION, 2015-2018. Karen Radner, F. Janoscha Kreppner and Andrea Squitieri …………………………………………………....165 Forward Ever since took over the duties of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities at the end of 2018 and the presidency of the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) in mid-2019, the SBAH's career has begun “once again” in the field work, publishing and research; the universities, research centers and international organizations have also begun coming to Iraq in order to start work, that includes surveys, excavations and projects aimed at protecting and preserving the heritage of our country, Iraq, as well as for the rehabilitation and training of the staff of the SBAH. Thousands of smuggled artifacts have been repatriated in coordination and cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other national and international parties; these artifacts including hundreds of cuneiform tablets from Cornell University, and from the Hobby Lobby Group, as well as artifacts from Jordan, Britain and Turkey. For the first time, the University of Pennsylvania Museum is returning Cuneiform tablets that were taken from Ur during the 1992 excavations for maintenance, delivering 387 tablets and broken tablets “fragmented” to the Iraqi embassy in Washington. This year, after several attempts since 1983, Babylon was on the UNESCO World Heritage List to begin allocating funds to develop the city as an archaeological and tourist attraction. Therefore, conservation projects began to correct the wrong work that took place in the 1980s. This work is carried out in coordination with UNESCO to avoid a recurrence of wrong conservation, with the participation of the World Monuments Fund. In the same context, SBAH has sent scientific reports to the World Heritage Center in order to remove the cities of Ashur, Hatra and Samarra from the list of heritage under threat and return it to the normal list; for example, in Ashur, in cooperation with the Ministry of Water Resources, a work of stone-toothed and iron- boiled nets was initiated to stop the erosion caused by the Tigris hitting the eastern part of the city, which UNESCO requested in order to remove Ashur from the list under threat. A National World Heritage Team has been formed to prepare dossiers and files of historical cities and archaeological, heritage and natural sites to be nominated to the list of UNESCO’s world heritage, as there is an initiative list of 12 archaeological and natural sites, including