Archaeologists find new evidence of ancient slave labor in southern Iraq
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Archaeologists work at an archaeological site where researchers uncovered massive earthen structures, believed to have been built with slave labor, and found that their construction spanned several centuries, near Basra, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Jaafar Jotheri)An aerial photo shows archaeologists working at an archaeological site where researchers uncovered massive earthen structures, believed to have been built with slave labor, and found that their construction spanned several centuries, near Basra, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Jaafar Jotheri)An aerial photo shows an archaeological site where researchers uncovered massive earthen structures, believed to have been built with slave labor, and found that their construction spanned several centuries, near Basra, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Jaafar Jotheri)An aerial photo shows archaeologists working at an archaeological site where researchers uncovered massive earthen structures, believed to have been built with slave labor, and found that their construction spanned several centuries, near Basra, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Jaafar Jotheri)
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Archaeologists work at an archaeological site where researchers uncovered massive earthen structures, believed to have been built with slave labor, and found that their construction spanned several centuries, near Basra, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Jaafar Jotheri)
