The tombs are believed to be over two thousand three hundred years old and were found at the edges of the Mosul Dam reservoir in the Khanke region of Duhok province.
His team initially surveyed the area in 2023 but only observed parts of a few tombs at that time.
Recent years have seen archaeologists uncover ruins dating back thousands of years in the same area due to consecutive droughts affecting Iraq for five years.
The newly discovered tombs are believed to date back to the Hellenistic or Hellenistic-Seleucid period according to Brefkany.
Iraq faces particular vulnerability to climate change effects with rising temperatures, chronic water shortages and consecutive annual droughts.
They also blame upstream dams built in neighbouring Iran and Turkey for dramatically reducing the flow of the historic Tigris and Euphrates rivers that have irrigated Iraq for millennia. – AFP
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