The drone of American scientists suddenly got lost and entered a huge Mesopotamian city located in the south of Iraq, which is built on many interconnected islands.
This overwhelming discovery belongs to a research team led by archaeologist Emily Hammer, anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania.
After preliminary remote sensing data collected through radar reveals a mysterious world suspected to be the famous Mesopotamian city of Lagas, scientists decided to send a drone a wetland survey between the Euphrates River and the Tigris River in southern Iraq.
As a result, the exploration plane was "swallowed" by an extremely spectacular vast landscape where ruins indicate the existence of the lost city, believed to have been built on scale. Huge scale: islands connected by 4 major islands and nearly 30 small islands gather together, moving in the inner city mainly through waterways.
This city belongs to Mesopotamian civilization was established about 5,000 years ago, especially between 4,600-4,900 years.
A small number of people in the city were first excavated more than 40 years ago, indicating that the city has been abandoned for about 3600 years. But thanks to aerial photography, scientists have witnessed first-hand the unimaginable scale of the ancient Lagash, now known as Tell a-Hiba.
Based on ancient origins, this new study helps challenge the traditional idea that the distant Mesopotamian city is just a compact settlement located in the hinterland of agriculture.
But images taken by the drone show it is located in a unique group of temples, and even the way the ancients connected the islands to form a floating city was unimaginable.
All the buildings they found were as high as 300 hectares of area.
On two major islands, scientists have discovered closed walls and areas with large kilns, which may be the island where kilns and crafts are prevalent.
Three of the main islands are located near Persian Gulf region , while the other is mainly a huge temple. In its heyday, this ghostly island city occupied the size of modern Chicago.
