IRAQ-CLIMATE-DROUGHT-ARCHAEOLOGY

Kurdish members of the Dohuk Antiquities Department work on a grave unearthed on the banks of Mosul Dam on an archaeological site in the Khanke sub-district of Dohuk Governorate on August 30, 2025. Archaeologists in drought-hit Iraq have discovered 40 ancient tombs after water levels in the country's largest reservoir decreased, local antiquities official said on August 30. The tombs, believed to be over 2,300 years old, were unearthed at the edges of the Mosul Dam reservoir in the Khanke region in the Dohuk province in the country's north. (Photo by Ismael ADNAN / AFP) (Photo by ISMAEL ADNAN/AFP via Getty Images)