In 2022, due to global warming, the climate was abnormal, and the La Niña phenomenon of that year played a role in boosting it, resulting in high temperatures around the world that summer, and many places on the continent broke the record of high temperatures.
Affected by the heat wave, the famous "Hunger Stone" in Europe at that time was exposed to the water. Affected by the Atlantic high-pressure belt and the Iranian high-pressure zone have been significantly strengthened, so that the already hot Middle East region seems to have been burned by "fire", and the road surface is a routine operation to fry eggs, and even the car plastic has begun to soften.
Against this backdrop, Iraq has been suffering from high temperatures for several months, and the southern region has been suffering from extreme drought. The southern region is an important growing area in Iraq.
In order to prevent crops from dying in the drought, the Iraqi authorities decided to divert water from the most important Mosul dam to irrigate crops in the surrounding area.
As the water level gradually decreased, people were surprised to find that a lost ancient city that had been submerged decades ago for 3,400 years had resurfaced in front of people's eyes.
Why did such an important ancient city sink before it was discovered?
It is reported that the Mosul Dam, formerly known as the "Saddam dam", was forced to change its name in 2003 due to well-known reasons. It is located in the Tigris Valley, 70 km north of the city of Mosul in Iraq.
The main reason for the choice to build the dam here is that most of Iraqis live on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and the Mesopotamian plain, where Iraq is located, is often flooded, causing the water levels of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to rise, which in turn bring flooding.
The construction of a dam here will not only control the water situation and reduce flooding, but also store water to provide irrigation for crops on both banks.
The Mosul dam was just one of many projects that were built in 1980, during the Iran-Iraq war, and the dam was not built independently by Iraq, but by countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
The purpose of these countries' funding for Iraq is also very clear, that is, to support Iraq in winning the Iran-Iraq war, and through these funding projects, Iraq has no worries.
Since the dam project was funded at that time, it was necessary to see the results in the short term in order to boost the morale of the people in China, and the whole project seemed to be a bit rushed and did not have time for detailed investigation. In this way, a dam with a capacity of 12 billion cubic meters of water was completed in just four years.
In the history of the world, there have been four ancient civilizations, namely China, ancient Egypt, ancient India and ancient Babylon. Ancient Babylon was located in the plains of Mesopotamia, in present-day Iraq.
Since it is an ancient civilization, there are many historical monuments, and most of these historical monuments have been buried underground after the precipitation of time.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the location of an ancient civilization hastily built a dam and submerged some historical monuments.
The Lost Ancient City
After the ancient city was revealed, an international team of German and Iraqi personnel began a salvage excavation of the ancient city.
Everyone must wonder why the Germans were involved in the ancient cities of Iraq. In fact, the West is very interested not only in the civilization of Central Asia, but also in ancient Egypt.
This is because the history of the West is not precipitated enough, and it is necessary to find its roots in these two ancient civilizations, and the location of the legendary "Noah's Ark" is the Mesopotamian plain, which is in today's Iraq.
And the importance of Noah's Ark to Westerners is self-evident. In our opinion, Noah's Ark is just like "Heavenly Court", it is a legendary existence, but many people in the West believe in Noah's Ark.
So, whenever there is a major discovery in Iraq, there are always Westerners who expect to find the legendary Noah's Ark.
And for this kind of lost ancient city that was submerged under water, of course, they would not miss it. Compared to the fresh bamboo basket 10,000 years ago, and 3,000 years ago, a new ancient sword. The monuments in Iraq, they are real monuments. These monuments not only provide traces of Western history, but also provide a lot of creative inspiration.
After the international team excavated, it was found that the ancient city belonged to the Mitanni Empire, a dynasty dating back to 3350-3550 years ago, when this dynasty controlled northern Mesopotamia and parts of Syria, so it is speculated that this ancient city is about 3400 years old.
According to the time point of view, this dynasty and China's Shang Dynasty are almost in a period of time, although this dynasty exists, but the overall history is not very clear, most of them are misspelled with the help of the history of neighboring countries, just like China's neighboring countries want to understand their domestic history, but also with the help of China's recorded history to spell mistakes. Of course, those countries that invented history out of thin air do not count, but can only say that the entire universe is theirs.
During this excavation, it was discovered that the ancient city had not only walls, but also defensive fortifications such as towers, as well as a huge storehouse, as well as a complex of handicrafts.
It is reported that the role of this huge storage room is to concentrate materials and then distribute them to the surrounding areas, which is quite a bit of today's express warehousing.
During the excavation, it was found that although the walls had been flooded for decades, most of them were well preserved, and according to the results of the examination, the walls were made of sun-dried mud bricks. It stands to reason that ordinary mud bricks will be eroded away when they encounter water.
However, it is also an extraordinary circumstance that has allowed this ancient city to be preserved, that is, in 1350 B.C., there was a great earthquake in the place where this ancient city is located, which completely destroyed the ancient city, and after the city walls collapsed, the complex was covered to protect the complex.
During the excavation, in addition to the discovery of the ruins of the ancient city, five clay pots were also found, which contained more than 100 pieces of firing cuneiform, and these words will help mankind now understand this ancient city, as well as the history of the Mitanni Empire, of course, it is better to find clues of Western history, if there is a record of Noah's Ark, it must be the result that Westerners want to see.