Posted on 06/04/2022 8:14:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A team of German and Kurdish archaeologists have uncovered a 3400-year-old Mittani Empire-era city once located on the Tigris River. The settlement emerged from the waters of the Mosul reservoir early this year as water levels fell rapidly due to extreme drought in Iraq. The extensive city with a palace and several large buildings could be ancient Zakhiku – believed to have been an important center in the Mittani Empire (ca. 1550-1350 BC).
...The south of the country in particular has been suffering from extreme drought for months. To prevent crops from drying out, large amounts of water have been drawn down from the Mosul reservoir – Iraq's most important water storage – since December. This led to the reappearance of a Bronze Age city that had been submerged decades ago without any prior archaeological investigations. It is located at Kemune in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
This unforeseen event put archaeologists under sudden pressure to excavate and document at least parts of this large, important city as quickly as possible before it was resubmerged. The Kurdish archaeologist Dr. Hasan Ahmed Qasim, chairman of the Kurdistan Archaeology Organization, and the German archaeologists Jun.-Prof. Dr. Ivana Puljiz (University of Freiburg) and Prof. Dr. Peter Pfälzner (University of Tübingen) spontaneously decided to undertake joint rescue excavations at Kemune. These took place in January and February 2022 in collaboration with the Directorate of Antiquities and Heritage in Duhok (Kurdistan Region of Iraq).
A team for the rescue excavations was put together within days. Funding for the work was obtained at short notice from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation through the University of Freiburg. The German-Kurdish archaeological team was under immense time pressure because it was not clear when the water in the reservoir would rise again.
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LOL!
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I am surprised you are linking to Immanuel Velikovsky, whose theories have been rejected as profoundly ahistorical and fantastical, and who wrote at the height of the 20th century Biblical skepticism, when a lot of archaeological explorations had yet to vindicate and reveal the history of many ancient sites.
The Mittani arose within upper Tigris/Euphrates Mesopotamia, principally along the Khabur River — which explains both its relation to the Hittites and isolation from the Assyrians.
It’s easy to forget the extent of this region. The distance from mouth of the Euphrates to modern Ankara in central Asia Minor is almost 1400 miles.
I'm not surprised that you know absolutely nothing about Immanuel Velikovsky, who has never been credibly refuted, only abused by left wingers like Harlow Shapley and Carl Sagan.
My pleasure.
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