Excellent find. I hope they find more evidence there like the
Assyrian Tablets in the British Museum which were so instrumental in finally nailing down the whereabouts of the Lost Tribes of Israel.
Excellent find. I hope they find more evidence there like the
Assyrian Tablets in the British Museum which were so instrumental in finally nailing down the whereabouts of the Lost Tribes of Israel.
It had four miles of massive stone walls and hundreds of defensive towers. Seven monumental gateways and hundreds of buildings, including an imperial palace, have been found. But not one hole has been excavated. Dr Summers' team used remote sensing and geophysical survey techniques to map the metropolis to an accuracy of 10 centimetres.
Stupid question #46:
If no actual excavation has been done, how do they know it was a Capital city of the Medes? It could be anyone without evidence gathered during excavation of the site.
Along the same lines, without digging, how do they know it is an imperial palace there?
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This find may be of interest to the descendents of the Medes, the Kurds. It may also resurrect that horrible pun, "One man's Mede is another man's Persion." Whoops! It just did!
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