The ruins of an ancient 3,500-year-old kingdom in Asia that self-emerge in the river-Travel

The ruins of a vast city that have just appeared in the middle of the Tigris River (Northern Iraq) are most likely the “lost city” of Zakhiku of the Mittani Empire, an ancient kingdom that once dominated Northern Mesopotamia.

An extreme drought caused the incredible monument to “regenerate” from a reservoir on the Tigris River, prompting archaeologists to hastily excavate and study before the water returned.

“The excavation results show that this site was an important center of the Mittani Empire,” Live Science quoted archaeologist Hasan Qasim, chairman of the Kurdistan Archaeological Organization, a member of the research team, as saying. .

The ancient capital of the famous Mittani kingdom has appeared spectacularly on the riverbank – Photo: University of Tübingen

The city of Zakhiku was once the bright star of the ancient kingdom of Mittani, during which the empire flourished on the banks of the Tigris River from 1550 to 1350 BC. It is considered an “Atlantis” of Southwest Asia.

This Bronze Age ruin appears in the midst of an archaeological site called Kemune, which contains many other relics of the Mittani Empire (written as the Mitanni Empire). The presence of the city in the Tigris River has long been identified, but archaeologists can only wait for the drought to reach it.

According to Science Alert, a small part of the city was exposed during the 2018 drought, helping to uncover a lost palace with walls and rooms up to 7 meters high ornately decorated with murals. This year’s more severe drought helped them find the rest, even map the city.

In addition to houses and roads, the fabled citadel also includes an industrial complex and a multi-storey storage facility capable of storing goods from all over the region, according to a new statement from the University of California. University of Tübingen – Germany, the leading unit of the excavation.

Those are absolutely astonishing structures in a city built over 1,500 BC, a period when many other parts of the world were still in the midst of the murky Stone Age.

The discovery once again proves the timeless civilization of the wondrous people living in Mesopotamia, one of the cradles of human civilization.