I don't see how you can possibly call it racist. What is your basis for that claim? They're doing the dig in coordination with the Directorate of Antiquities a

I don't see how you can possibly call it racist. What is your basis for that claim? They're doing the dig in coordination with the Directorate of Antiquities and Heritage in Duhok, which is in the officially recognized Kurdistan Region, the local archeologists are all Kurdish. The site, Kemune, is also in the Kurdistan region. Dr. Hasan Ahmed Qasim is also the chairman of the Kurdistan Archaeology Organization. It doesn't seem odd to use the word "Kurdish" a paltry 3 times in the article. It seems like specificity that adds clarity rather than anything else.