Royal City

Ancient fortress found by archaeologists may be a lost royal city

(ORDO NEWS) — The 2,000-year-old fortress built on a mountainside in present-day Kurdistan may be part of a lost royal city called Natuniya. CNN writes about it. Using drone photography, archaeologists excavated and cataloged the site in a series of excavations between 2009 and 2022. The stone fortress of Rabana-Merculi, located in the Zagros mountains, includes almost 4 km long fortifications and two small settlements. The fortress was on the…