* Astronomy

Ancient City That Mysteriously Survived Mideast Collapse Discovered

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient city in northwest Syria, which is claimed not only to survive the Middle East civilization collapse, but also to expand after that.
While ancient civilizations across the Middle East couldn't survive the global drought that occurred about 4,200 years ago, an incident, believed to be the possible cause of the Mideast collapse, the ancient city of Tell Qarqur mysteriously thrived.
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Tell Qarqur is a major archaeological site located in the Orontes River Valley of western Syria. Situated in a rich alluvial plain known as the Ghab valley, the double-mounded site lies near the modern Syrian town of Jisr ash-Shugur and the village of Qarqur.
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