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When Drought Caused A Reservoir In Iraq To Dry Up, It Exposed A Palace From A Once Powerful Kingdom

April 27, 2023

When water levels in the Mosul Dam reservoir fell in , people were permitted the briefest glimpse of something long submerged. Yet it wasn’t until much later that the reservoir had dried up enough to allow archaeologists to finally explore this mysterious find. And so they rushed to do so before it disappeared under the water again.

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