Located in the Zagros mountains in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, Shanidar Cave served as an important place for ...
Now, a new study pinpoints where one wave of those encounters occurred — the Zagros Mountains in what is now mostly Iran.
This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The peaks of the Zagros mountain range are still dusted with snow. Long, twisting roads draw lines over the valleys ...