Al-Qadisiyah battlesite...found?

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.gbnews.com/science/archaeology-breakthrough-ancient-battle-site-discovered-declassified-spy-satellite-images

Not one's normal source of information....

[DBS]

Based on article for Antiquity, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/locating-alqadisiyyah-mapping-iraqs-most-famous-early-islamic-conquest-site/21B9442A0AF8C5AF41F67D7F270B0E34

[Imperial Dave]

A better source...

[DBS]

Interesting that it has come out of Durham - Emma Cunliffe there did fantastic work a decade ago on mapping the damage caused by Daesh when they started smashing up all the pre-Islamic monuments they could get their hands on when they rampaged across eastern Syria and northern Iraq.