Tigris river : 3400 year old city recently emerged from Tigris river
Tigris river : Especially the southern part of the country, which has been suffering from drought for many months. To keep crops from drying out, water is drawn from the Mosul River – Iraq’s most important water reservoir – from December. This led to the reappearance of a Bronze Age city that had been submerged decades earlier without any prior archaeological investigation.
It is located in Kemayun in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. A team was put together within a few days to excavate the rescue. The German-Kurdish archeology team was under time pressure as it was unclear when the water in the reservoir would rise again. It was only a short time ago that researchers were able to map the city on a large scale.
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The extensive urban complex dates to the time of the Mitanni Empire (circa 1550–1350 BC), which controlled much of northern Mesopotamia and Syria. In addition to a palace, which had already been documented during a small expedition in 2018, several other large buildings were uncovered – a massive fortification with walls and towers, a monumental, multi-storey storage building and a industrial complex.
This good preservation is due to the fact that the city was destroyed in an earthquake around 1350 BC, during which the buildings were buried by the collapse of the upper parts of the walls. The research team was stunned by the well-preserved condition of the walls – sometimes up to several meters in height arival view of excavations at Kemune showing Bronze Age architecture partially submerged in a lake A 3400-year-old city emerges from the Tigris River .
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