Drought in Iraq Reveals 3,400-Year-Old City

[staarker]

Iraq is battling its worst drought in decades. Lack of rainfall and poor resource management has left communities that depend on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers devoid of the water they need to survive. So authorities drained part of the Mosul Dam reservoir in the country’s Kurdistan region this January to keep crops from drying out.

As it turns out, the decision preserved more than crops. Out of that drained area, an ancient city emerged—and with just days to examine the area before the waters came back, archaeologists successfully mapped what they believe to have been a major city in the Mittani Empire (also spelled Mitanni Empire) built 3,400 years ago.
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[kingsnite]

Reading about something like this just makes you wonder what type of hidden history that we walk over every day and don't know anything about it. It makes me want to go outside and start digging for artifacts

[jasmine]

Sometimes it hurts to see what is happening in Iraq these days. Iraq is an ancient civilization. One of the wonders of the ancient world "Hanging Garden of Babylon" was in Iraq (which was called Mesopotamia in ancient times). Even the Biblical Garden of Eden is believed to have existed in Iraq.