The [Iraqi] Antiquities Department says French archaeologists have recently unearthed a new Sumerian temple in the southern Province of Dhiqar.
The department’s information officer, Abdulzahra al-Talaqani, said a team of French excavators did a short season of digging at al-Rafaai, the district where the Sumerian temple was found.
The French were expected to resume digging to provide a good picture of the new discovery, he said.
Details are sketchy but Talaqani said the department would provide by December “the engineering details that will elucidate (the temple’s) archaeological significance and its contents.”
Was this unearthed by itself or is it part of an ongoing excavation of a town?