Archaeologists say they have found a lost city that was base more than two millennium ago following the conquests of Alexander the Great in modernistic day Iraq .
It was discovered by theIraq Emergency Heritage Management Training Programme , fructify up to mitigate the damage cause by Islamic State . The squad is being train by the British Museum in London .
After making the discovery in the declassified photos , the team mail a drone over the situation to confirm its existence . They were able to spot statues of Greco - Roman deities and terracotta ceiling tiles , while major buildings are call up to be bury at the site .
“ The droning yielded excellent information , ” Dr John MacGinnis , the archeologist head the curriculum , toldThe Times . “ It ’s early days , but we opine it would have been a bustling city on a road from Iraq to Iran . you could imagine people provide wine-colored to soldiers pass through . ”
Various report have suggest this metropolis was founded by Alexander the Great . A spokesperson for the British Museum , however , told us that was not the typesetter’s case , but that the metropolis was set up in the viewing of his conquests . As such , an exact date of the city has not been suggested – but it was almost certainly after Alexander the Great marched past in 331 BC while chasing Darius III of Persia .
Qalatga Darband is located about 10 kilometre ( 6 stat mi ) south - east of Rania in Iraqi Kurdistan . Teams have since do ground inspection of the land site , learn a large square building that is call up to have been a garrison . It ’s also think someone crucial may have been buried here .
“ A priming inspection at the site revealed the presence of a large number of carve limestone blocks , together with weights and bag of a type associated with vino or crude oil presses , ” read theBritish Museum . “ It was therefore unclouded that remains of considerable importance lay buried at the site . ”
Many sites like this were impacted following the US - lead invasion in 2003 , and more so now that Islamic State has been wreaking havoc . Various historic sites have been ruin by the militant group .
For example , in October 2015 Islamic State destroyed the famous Arch of Triumph in Palmyra , thought to have been build 2,000 long time ago . Areplicawas unveiled in Trafalgar Square in London in April 2016 .
