Tulul al-Baqarat

Tulul al-Baqarat or Tulūl al-Baqarāt, is an ancient Near East archaeological site in Wasit Governorate of Iraq about 180 kilometers southeast of modern Baghdad.

The largest mound TB1 was excavated, in response to serious looting, by a team from the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage led by Ayad Mahir Mahmud from 2008 to 2010.

An important find at Tulul al-Baqarat was an Akkadian period diorite fragment with a long portion of the military campaign of Naram-Sin where he destroyed the city of Armanum and proceeded on tho the Cedar Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea.

[14] By the time of the original Iraqi excavations the site was already heavily damaged by looters, especially in the northern and central sections.

The TB5 mound was surveyed in 2013 but by the time excavators returned in 2015 it had been completely bulldozed away, including 3 feet below the surface level, for cultivation even though it was a designated archaeological location.