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'''Kemune''' (thought to be the ancient city of '''Zakhiku''')<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dwindling water levels reveal another surprise: An ancient lost city |url=https://news.yahoo.com/ancient-city-iraq-unearthed-extreme-180558360.html |access-date=2022-06-03 |website=news.yahoo.com |language=en-US}}</ref> is an [[archaeological site]] discovered during a low water level in the [[reservoir]] of the [[Mosul Dam]] in the [[Nineveh Governorate]], part of the [[Iraqi Kurdistan|Kurdistan region of Iraq]] in 2013.<ref>Sconzo, Paola, Francesca Simi, and Andrea Titolo, "Drowned Landscapes: The Rediscovered Archaeological Heritage of the Mosul Dam Reservoir", Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research 389.1, pp. 165-189, 2023</ref> The [[Mitanni]] era city was destroyed by an earthquake around 1350 BC.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/news-and-publications/press-releases/press-releases/article/archaeologists-uncover-palace-of-the-mittani-empire-in-the-duhok-province-of-the-kurdistan-region-iraq/|title=Archaeologists uncover palace of the Mittani Empire in the Duhok province of the Kurdistan Region/ Iraq|work=Eberhard Karls University Tübingen|date=27 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Titolo |first=Andrea |date=January 2021 |title=Use of Time-Series NDWI to Monitor Emerging Archaeological Sites: Case Studies from Iraqi Artificial Reservoirs |journal=Remote Sensing |language=en |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=786 |doi=10.3390/rs13040786 |issn=2072-4292|doi-access=free }}</ref>