A monumental 5,000-year-old cultic space unearthed in Iraq may redefine how archaeologists understand the earliest urban societies and their spiritual foundations.

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Archaeologists in Iraq have discovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old building that might have been used as a "cultic space" ...