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Al Hira District, Najaf, Iraq – 10 November 2024
1. Cars driving on main road
2. Traffic sign showing al Hira district
3. Various of Iraqi archaeologist looking at satellite images
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jaafar Jotheri, professor of archeology at the University of Al-Qadisiyah:
“This location, or this battlefield, belonged to the al-Qadisiyah battle, which happened in the early Islamic period, when the Arab and Muslim army came here from the west and then the Sassanian Empire army came from the east, and they met here in this location.”
5. Various of Jotheri walking along berm on site
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jaafar Jotheri, professor of archeology at the University of Al-Qadisiyah:
“We have the main fortress where I am standing here. Al-Qadisiyah fortress, which is a large mound surrounded by a fortified wall and we believe that this was the main camp of the Muslim leader, and then over here we can see the al Khandaq, the trench, or one of the borders of the Sassanian Empire.”
7. Wide of Jotheri exploring site
8. Tracking shot of a berm on site
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jaafar Jotheri, professor of archeology at the University of Al-Qadisiyah:
“And then we have the ancient river, ancient Euphrates there, and we have a wall, a long wall or a canal, and then we have al Udaib fortress. So, all of this evidence telling us that this is the exact location where the battle activity took place.”
10. Various of Jotheri searching for artefacts
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jaafar Jotheri, professor of archeology at the University of Al-Qadisiyah:
“We used the satellite images, we used the ground truthing, we used the historical text to find out that this is the exact battlefield. And also we found some pottery, early Islamic Sassanian pottery, bricks, some foundations of fortresses, everything.”
12. Various of archaeologist checking materials in soil
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jaafar Jotheri, professor of archeology at the University of Al-Qadisiyah:
“Al-Qadisiyah battle is one of the significant war, or conflict, or a significant battle that happened in the early Islamic period, and you know, its location is missing, and we worked together to find this location.”
14. Various of daily life scenes from nearby district
15. Wide of Jotheri on site
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Jaafar Jotheri, professor of archeology at the University of Al-Qadisiyah:
“This is the, let’s say, the result of cooperation between Durham University in the UK and al-Qadisiyah University in Iraq. So, you know, academic staff and students of these two institutions, the Iraqi and British, we worked together using satellite images, remote sensing, and GIS of course, and then ground truthing. So, we worked together to find the location of the al-Qadisiyah battlefield.”
17. Various of street in southern Najaf
STORYLINE:
Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site of a 7th-century battle that became decisive in the spread of Islam throughout the region.
The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia – present-day Iraq – in the 630s AD between Arab Muslims and the army of the Sassanid Persian dynasty during a period of Muslim expansion.
The Arab army prevailed and continued on its march into Persia, now Iran.
A joint team of archeologists from the UK’s Durham University and the University of Al-Qadisiyah stumbled across the site while undertaking a remote sensing survey to map a pilgrimage route from Iraq’s Kufa to Mecca in Saudi Arabia built more than 1,000 years ago.
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