Unfortunately many of the projects listed below were put on hold this year due to advances by ISIS.

Abu Tbeirah: Excavations by a Sapienza University of Rome and an Iraqi team.

Bab-w-Kur: University of Copenhagen excavations on this Late Chalcolithic site near Tell Shemshara.

Babylon: Restoration project led by the World Monuments Fund and Iraq's State Board of Antiquities.

Bakr Awa: This is an excavation being conducted by the University of Heidelberg at a large, multi-period tell located in the Shahrizor Plain. Both the lower and upper town are being excavated.

Bazian: University of Paris excavations at this Sasanian period site and recent investigations by University of Pennsylvania.

Bestan Sur: University of Reading and Suleymaniyah Department of Antiquities excavation at the early Neolithic settlement of Bestan Sur.

Chamchamal Project: Archaeological survey of the Chamchamal region and excavation project on the main tell headed by the German Archaeological Institute and the Suleymaniyah Board of Antiquities.

Eastern Habur Survey: University of Tübingen survey of the region.

Ecohistories Project: Geo-archaeological study of palaeo-channels in southern Iraq (from Diyala to Nasariya) led by Osaka Gakuin University, Qadisiyah University, and University College London.

Erbil: There was a University of West Bohemia Plzeň project working on the Erbil citadel. UNESCO has also sponsored restoration work and the German Archaeological Institute has conducted excavations.

Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey: Survey of the region around Erbil led by Harvard University.

Gurga Chiya: Excavations led by University College London and the Suleymaniyah Board of Antiquities; this work includes excavations at nearby Tepe Marina.

Kunara: Bronze Age site being investigated by University of Paris/CNRS.

Kurd Qaburstan: Archaeological investigations led by Johns Hopkins University.

Land of Nineveh Project: Survey north of Nineveh in Dohuk province led by the Italian Archaeological Mission to Assyria.

Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments: Multi-period mapping and digital recording project led by Columbia University. The first season (2013) concentrated on documenting the major monuments and historical architecture of the Dohuk region and the city of Erbil.

Old Basra Project: This project is led by the School of Oriental and African Studies in cooperation with the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage in Iraq that is surveying old sites and recording standing monuments in and around the city of Basra.

Paikuli Project: A Sasanian monument near Darband-i Khan investigated by an Italian-Kurdish mission from Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente and the Suleymaniyah Board of Antiquities. Local survey as well.

Qasr Shamamuk: A University of Lyon excavation.

Shahrizor Survey Project: A multidisciplinary team from University College London, Leiden University, University of Munich, and the Suleymaniyah Board of Antiquities conducting palaeo-ecological, archaeological survey, and historical analysis in the Shahrizor Plain.

Sirwan Project: Survey of the Upper Diyala/Sirwan region led by Glasgow University, University of Arkansas, and Bitlis Eren University.

Slemania Regional Survey: Slemania Governorate survey with IFPO.

Soran Survey: Boston University project incorporating excavation and survey.

Surezah: University of Chicago excavations on a prehistoric site.

Tell Bagum: Leiden University excavations on a prehistoric and historic period site.

Tell Khaiber: Excavations led by Manchester University at a site near Ur in Dhi Qar province. See www.urarchaeology.org for further information.

Tell Nader: This is a small site, excavated by the University of Athens, now within the city of Erbil that has Hassuna to Middle/Neo-Assyrian remains.

Tell Sakhariya: A site excavated by the State University of New York at Stony Brook and an Iraqi team near Ur.

Tell Shemshara: Excavations being conducted by University of Reading (focusing on prehistoric periods) and Leiden University (historic periods).