Anthropologist discovers city older than Egyptian Pyramids in old satellite images

The CORONA program was basically a series of American spy satellites used for photographic surveillance in the 50s-70s.

By Sadhna Yadav
March 10, 2022 10:43 GMT

Anthropologist Dr. Jesse Casana says that he may have discovered an ancient city and believes that it could be older than the Egyptian pyramids. The area is called Tell Brak, and the discovery has been made by analysing images taken by an old spy satellite.

Dr. Casana has been studying these old photos from the Middle East for several years now. He believes that these images can reveal important information about the ancient city.

"We were able to document something like 10,000 previously unknown archaeological sites that, through the history of 150 years of archaeologists working in the Middle East, no one had ever documented," he said.

According to a report by The Mirror, the city evolved into one of the biggest cities in Upper Mesopotamia during the fourth millennium BC. It included parts of north-western Iraq, north-eastern Syria, and south-eastern Turkey.

Even pottery dating back to circa 6500 BC also emerged at the site and the city had developed into an urban hub before cities like Uruk in southern Mesopotamia became well-known hubs.

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