Unearthing the lost kingdom of Aratta
In south-eastern Iran, a sudden change in the course of the Halil Roud River recently revealed traces of a 5000-year-old civilisation on the Iranian Plateau. Scientists hail this as an important discovery, one which may challenge the common belief that civilization arose from one location in Mesopotamia. In 2003, Prof. Youssef Madjidzadeh, leading an international team rushing to defeat the looters, unearthed a vast construction that could be a ziggurat, and is convinced that he is unearthing the mythical kingdom of Aratta described in the most ancient Sumerian legends found in Uruk: a rich and powerful city-state that would have had a seminal role in the development of the Sumerian religion
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