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As security improves to allow excavation, evidence may emerge that advanced societies existed in the area much earlier than previously thought, said Dr John Russell, professor of archaeology at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.

 

"A decade of research in Iraq could rewrite the books of archaeology, no question," Russell, who is currently serving as a senior adviser to Iraq's ministry of culture, told Reuters on Thursday at the opening of new conservation and restoration laboratory at Iraq's National Museum in Baghdad.

 

 

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I really do hope they find a lot of good stuff there. There's a painful lack of knowledge about that era in human history, which I am very interested in finding out. I am trying to make a family tree of civilization from about 30,000 years ago and all the information I find is so incredibly vauge.

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