ULUKAYINThe discovery was made by a team of British and Iraqi archaeologists in the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, about 300 km southeast of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The Girsu Project was created by the British Museum in order to prevent such problems, to re-examine the old archaeological finds and to continue the excavations with modern methods. Some of the mudbrick walls of the palace are preserved in a museum in Baghdad today