Qalatga Darband, which is believed to have been founded in 331 BC by Alexander the Great, ... “It’s early days, but we think it would have been a bustling city on a road from Iraq to Iran.

The Darband-i Rania Archaeological Project did exactly that, and they have made a remarkable discovery. Darband-i Rania is a pass in northern Iraq, about 100 km from the Kurdish capital of Erbil.

The rich archaeological heritage of Iraq suffered grievous damage at the hands of so-called Islamic State. As its fighters are driven back, British Museum teams are among the first to assess the ...

LONDON, ENGLAND—British Museum researchers say they may have found Alexander the Great’s lost city of Qalatga Darband in Iraq, according to a report in The Times of London.The archaeologists ...

In about 331 B.C., empire builder Alexander the Great overtook a site called Qalatga Darband on his way to battle the last king of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia, Darius III. Despite once being a ...

The site, called Qalatga Darband, was directly on the route that Alexander the Great took as he pursued the Persian ruler Darius III in 331 B.C. before their epic battle at Gaugamela.

Darband-i Gomaspan city is in Iraq and here you will see the latest map of this city. You can also find the route direction on this page by entering the name of destination and then 'Get Directions' ...

Qalatga Darband, as the settlement is called, ... During the reign of Saddam Hussein and the subsequent U.S. invasion of Iraq, the region was inaccessible to archaeologists.

Ismael Nuraddini peers into a hole in the earth of Iraq’s Kurdistan region at what researchers believe could be remnants of a lost city dating back more than 2,000 years. Pointing around the Qalatga ...

Lost city founded by Alexander the Great uncovered in Iraq after 2,000 years The remnants of Qalatga Darband date back more than two millennia.

The rich archaeological heritage of Iraq suffered grievous damage at the hands of so-called Islamic State. As its fighters are driven back, British Museum teams are among the first to assess the ...

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