A cool find in Iraq.
4,000-Year-Old Mesopotamian City Discovered In the Shadow Of Ur
Read the rest of the article at the link.A 4,000-year-old urban settlement has been discovered on the road to Ur in modern Iraq. Researchers suspect the discovery represents a lost Mesopotamian city capital that was founded on the ashes of the collapse of ancient Babylonia in the middle of the second millennium BC.
According to the Middle Eastern news site, Al-Monitor, a joint team of Russian and Iraqi archaeologists discovered the site on 24 June 2021 in the Tell al-Duhaila area in Dhi Qar Governorate, around 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the ancient city of Ur site.
The Dhi Qar Governorate in southern Iraq is perhaps best known as the backdrop for The Battle of Dhi, fought between Arab tribes and the Sassanid Empire around the year 623 AD. However, long before the Muslim invasion of the territory known today as Iraq, ancient cultures built thousands of ziggurat temples, sacred burial sites and proto-cities across the Mesopotamian delta. This is one of them, but it is perhaps more “important” that all the others.
The Fall of Nineveh, by John Martin depicts the The Battle of Nineveh (circa 612 BC). In this battle the combined the forces of Medes and the Babylonians rebelled against the Assyrians, laying waste to one of the greatest Mesopotamian cities ever built. The fall of Nineveh led to the destruction of the Neo-Assyrian Empire over the next three years. ( むーたんじょ / CC BY-SA 4.0 )
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