A team of German and Kurdish archaeologists have uncovered a 3400-year-old Mittani Empire-era city. The settlement emerged from the waters of the Mosul reservoir early this year as water levels fell rapidly due to extreme drought in Iraq. uni-tuebingen.de/en/universi…

The extensive city with towers, a monumental palace and several other large buildings could be ancient Zakhiku – believed to have been an important center in the Mittani Empire (ca. 1550-1350 BC). The mud-bricks of the Bronze Age buildings

The research team was stunned by the well-preserved state of the walls – to a height of several meters This good preservation is due to the fact that the city was destroyed in an earthquake around 1350 BC, during which the collapsing upper parts of the walls buried the buildings.

Of particular interest is the discovery of five ceramic vessels that contained an archive of over 100 cuneiform tablets. They date to the Middle Assyrian period, shortly after the earthquake disaster struck the city. Pottery vessels, in which cuneiform tablets were stored