New discovery of the city 4,000 years missing

Many stone carvings in the piece of antiques that were handed to Iraq in May 2016 led scientists to search for the missing city of Irisagrig.

Stone engravings and numerous other artifacts were looted from Iraq's archaeological sites, smuggled through Israel, the United Arab Emirates and eventually fell into the hands of Hobby Lobby (USA). In early May, Iraq held a reception ceremony, whereby these objects returned after more than a year of storage.

Recently, Professor Eckart Frahm - Yale University of Languages ​​and Modern Civilizations (USA) - revealed to Live Science that 450 stone inscriptions, the seal in this artifact group are ancient texts. expensive, can lead archaeologists to the city of Irisagrig - a rich city in Iraq 4,000 years ago, now lost track.

Satellite image of black spots is said to be the ruins of the missing city.

The professor said he had more than two days of statistics, rearranging the antiquities that described in detail the work in the city."A document documenting the distribution of food to royal messengers and officials. Other documents document the supply of food for" palace dogs, "a number of other documents on the renovation of a the channel " - Professor Frahm revealed.

These new stone engravings date quite far from other documents believed to belong to Irisagrig that were found in many states of the United States, Australia, Japan, Canada, Israel, France . The first inscriptions appear. in the smuggling market in 2003.

Remarkably, some inscriptions recorded about how to locate Irisagrig. According to calculations, it is likely located in a town near Afak, the current southern Iraq. A satellite photo taken in 2017 in this area shows the mysterious ruins in the desert, suspected of being a trace of the old city.

In addition to 450 newly-repaid engravings, there were other discrete engravings returning to Iraq with the support of world scientists. They hoped that with what they gathered, especially the shipment of up to 450 inscriptions in May last year, Iraqi scholars could complete an interesting search.