Location of 11 Lost Ancient Cities Discovered on 4,000-Year-Old Artifacts Found in Turkey

Archeologists made one of the greatest discoveries, founding 4,000-year-old clay tablets, with the locations of 11 lost ancient cities engraved on them. The 4,000-year-old clay tablet was found in Turkey at the site of an ancient city known as Kanesh, and was created by ancient merchants from the Assyrian Empire.

Ancient clay found in Turkey. Image: ancientpages.com

Engraved clay text was written in an ancient Cuneiform script, created by the ancient Sumerians, and after careful translation, the scientists were able to decipher not only the location of the 11 lost cities of the middle eastern kingdom of Assyria, but also to uncover details of business transactions, shipment documents, accounts, seals, contracts and marriage certificates.

All of those data helped experts, such as Harvard’s Assyriology expert Gojko Barjamovic, to begin to delineate the potential locations identified on the clay tablets and start working on the map of those cities. The 12,000 tablets included data of 26 cities of which 11 are new discoveries.

The location of the kingdom of Assyria. image: thesun.co.uk

This map is indispensable for archeologists, now on account of her, they can begin digging at the estimated locations to discover much more information about one of the most mysterious and first organized civilizations in the history. As declared, the breakthrough can potentially alter our knowledge of the ancient Assyrian Empire.

Due to the fact that the clay text did not provide the exact coordinates of the cities, researchers were able to determine the location of the cities, employing the “structural gravity model”, since the majority of ancient trading posts were located close to each other.

The experts explained: “For a majority of the lost cities, our quantitative estimates come remarkably close to the qualitative conjectures produced by historians, corroborating both such historical models and our purely quantitative method. Moreover, in some cases where historians disagree on the likely location of a lost city, our quantitative method supports the conjecture of some historians and rejects that of others.”

These tablets have empowered us to have a glimpse into the ancient Assyrian kingdom. Especially, they uncovered that Kanesh, once a minor trading settlement, ultimately evolved into probably the most significant trading outposts of the region.

Experts are quite overwhelmed at this point considering the fact that the upcoming action to take is to schedule out a number of archeological expeditions and begin to excavate with great hopes of discovering plenty of long-lost ancient cities.

 

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