Ancient city of the Mittani Empire in the Duhok province of the Kurdistan Region

German and Kurdish archaeologists have uncovered a Mittani palace on the eastern bank of the Tigris River in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. As the research team reports, the site of Kemune can be dated to the time of the Mittani Empire, which dominated large parts of northern Mesopotamia and Syria from the 15th to the 14th century BCE. The Mittani Empire is one of the least researched kingdoms of the Ancient Near East. The archaeologists now hope to obtain new information about the politics, economy, and history of the empire by studying cuneiform tablets discovered in the palace.