Declassified spy photography, confirmed by drone footage, showed the outlines of the city, where Greek artefacts were found. Alexander the Great is believed to have founded it in 331In what may sound like an extraordinary act of carelessness, a city thought to have been founded by Alexander the Great was lost for more than 2,000 years. Alexander the Great, as played by Colin Farrell in 2004 Jaap Buitendijk/Warner BrosQalatga Darband, a fortified settlement in northern Iraq with a thriving wine trade, went unrecorded by history until its remains were discovered by archaeologists at the British Museum with the aid of drones. Archaeologists stumbled across the lost city while poring over declassified spy satellite photographs taken by the American government for military purposes in the 1960s but made public only in 1996. An archaeological dig was out of the question when Saddam Hussein controlled Iraq and this remained the case after the US-led invasion in 2003, but improved security prompted the British Museum to explore the…

Source: The Times September 24, 2017 23:08 UTC