The Italian-Kurdish Faida Archaeological Project

■ In September-October 2019, the joint “Italian-Kurdish Faida Archaeological Project”, co-directed by Prof Daniele Morandi Bonacossi (University of Udine – Italy) and Dr Hasan Ahmed Qasim (Directorate of Antiquities of Duhok), has made an extraordinary archaeological discovery at Faida (Duhok). Ten unique Assyrian rock reliefs of the eighth-seventh century BC were excavated on the left side of an Assyrian irrigation canal. ■ Tra settembre e ottobre 2019, la missione congiunta “Italian-Kurdish Faida Archaeo