Researchers believe they may have found the 2,000-year-old lost city of Natounia, an ancient military and religious complex in the Zagros Mountains.
"An epithet on the coins locates it 'on the Kapros,'which we know is the modern Lower Zab river," Brown wrote."Rabana-Merquly is by far the largest and most impressive site of the Parthian era in that region, and the only one with royal iconography, so it's by far the best candidate," Brown wrote.
The 2021 Rabana excavation team. Archaeologists believe they may have found Natounia, an ancient military and religious complex in the Zagros Mountains dating to more than 2,000 years ago."From coinage, we know that the city was a royal foundation—the king's name as a toponym.
"The most exciting aspect of the site is definitely the natural setting. Rabana-Merquly is located on the western side of Mt. Piramagrun, one of the most spectacular mountains in the Zagros range, the western side of which runs through Iraqi Kurdistan," Brown said. Brown plans to continue digging at Rabana-Merquly, disclosing that drone mapping has revealed many more interesting structures throughout the complex.Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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