Excavation at Iraqi archaeological site underway: Italian archaeologists

STORY: Excavation at Iraqi archaeological site underway: Italian archaeologists DATELINE: Sept. 25, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:20 LOCATION: ERBIL, Iraq CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of archaeological excavations in the Gird-i Matrab area in Erbil, Iraq 2. SOUNDBITE (English): ROCCO PALERMO, Associate Director for Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey, Italian University of Pisa STORYLINE: A team of archaeologists from the Italian University of Pisa are working on archaeological excavations in the Gird-i Matrab area, 37 km south of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq, dating back to different ages. SOUNDBITE (English): ROCCO PALERMO, Associate Director for Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey, Italian University of Pisa "We are here at the site of Gird-i Matrab. It is a very important site in the plain of Erbil. It has two major faces of occupation. One, it is dated to the late Chalcolithic and Uruk period which is 4th Millennium B.C. The other one is dated to the period that goes between