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Dr. Jane Moon OBE is an archaeologist and Co-Director of the Ur Region Archaeology Project (URAP), a heritage project at the site of Tell Khaiber, in the Dhi Qar province of southern Iraq. Dr. Moon worked in Baghdad for the British School of Archaeology in Iraq from 1976 to 1986, and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to archaeology in 2000. The URAP was set up in 2012 as an international collaboration between the University of Manchester, the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, and the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. It focuses on the two mounds of the ancient settlement of Tell Khaiber, 20 km from the ancient city of Ur. Satellite images showed the presence of a large building under the surface, and a visit in 2012 confirmed that occupation dated back at least 4,000 years.
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