10 kilometers from Afak district, the ruins of the historical city are located, where its high hills stand out. It was famous in the history of the civilization of Mesopotamia in its sacred religious status, as it was a great center of worship for the Sumerian god (Enlil) and was famous in the exploits of Mesopotamia that the kings and rulers were not to prove the legitimacy of their rule and their assumption of power, especially in ancient times, only after they received the crown, hollows and other royal insignia.
The archaeological area includes the remains of the ziggurat, which was the sacred place in which man communicates with the gods. In this ziggurat, the god (Enlil), the master of earth and sky, as he was called, was worshiped. Also, outside its ancient wall, there is the hill of inscrption, in which the excavators found a large number of clay tablets that contained various types of knowledge. The most important discovery was the finding of a clay inscription containing a map of Nafar and the names of its neighborhoods, which indicates the grandeur of the city’s construction and the progress of its planning at that time, where archaeologists inferred the landmarks of the holy city.
