Between 1880 and 1912, no official excavations took place at Kish. Yet museums from London and Paris to New York were somehow acquiring brand-new tablets from the legendary old city. As it turns out, local Iraqis had been excavating the site years before the "official" excavations at Kish resumed. B ut while the official excavations are remembered and celebrated, the local Iraqis have been erased from their own history. ...read more read less