The ancient city of Urkesh, now Tell Mozan, has become the center of many activities carried out around the archaeological site, that give life to a strong and unexpected synergy between a variety of communities and social groups.
In stark contrast to the destructive violence of war and to the intentional and perverse iconoclastic movements, Urkesh has emerged as a source of hope and pride for the people who gravitate around it.
Thus, the Tell Mozan archaeological project has become a model for the new sensibility that archaeology as a discipline is increasingly invited to develop – a sensibility that identifies the shared territory as a common load-bearing element between the ancients and those who now live in the same places.
