Timothy Birdnow

Amazing; a city founded by Alexander the Great has just been discovered.

Alexander on the Tigris was long thought a legend but archaeologists have recently unearthed the long lost city

The city was founded in the fourth century B.C. on the Tigris river in what is now Iraq. The Tigris river's channel changed, leaving the city high and dry (literally) and it withered. By the third century A.D. it was pretty much gone.

The city is extraordinarily well preserved. It was two and a half square miles in area - huge as ancient cities went.

At any rate we live in exciting times.

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