Tepe Gawra

[ Turkish te-pe gou-rah ]

noun

1. an archaeological site in N Iraq, near Mosul: excavations have revealed that numerous settlements have occupied this site since c5000 b.c.

Example Sentences

They’re filled with almost 1,200 objects from settlements like Tepe Gawra and Ur, among them the items mentioned above — along with Queen Puabi’s glittery burial outfit.

From New York Times

Only a handful of ruins — at Ubaid, Eridu and Oueili in southern Mesopotamia and Tepe Gawra, in the north near Mosul, Iraq — had produced at best a sketchy picture of these older cultures.

From New York Times

In fact, archaeologists said, it was similar in design to a seal found 185 miles to the east, at Tepe Gawra, near Mosul.

From New York Times