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In February 2026, an international team confirmed the site of Alexandria on the Tigris — later Charax Spasinou — a port city founded by Alexander the Great around 324 BC. Drone imagery and geophysics revealed street grids, canals and vast residential blocks.

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Founded on Alexander's return from the Indus, the city thrived for some six hundred years as a hinge between Mesopotamia and the sea lanes to India — then faded as the Tigris wandered away from its walls, and its location blurred into scholarly dispute. The new survey, led from the University of Konstanz, settled the question without major excavation: the city's bones showed up from the air. Rivers, not armies, decided this city's fate.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Şubat 2026'da uluslararası bir ekip, Büyük İskender'in MÖ 324 dolayında kurduğu liman kenti Dicle İskenderiyesi'nin — sonraki adıyla Charax Spasinou — yerini doğruladı. Dron görüntüleri ve jeofizik taramalar sokak ızgaralarını, kanalları ve dev konut adalarını ortaya çıkardı.
Dicle'deki İskenderiye

İskender'in İndus dönüşünde kurulan kent, Mezopotamya ile Hindistan'a uzanan deniz yolları arasında bir menteşe olarak altı yüz yıl kadar serpildi — sonra Dicle surlarından uzağa kıvrıldıkça soldu ve konumu bilimsel tartışmaya karıştı. Konstanz Üniversitesi öncülüğündeki yeni tarama, soruyu büyük kazıya girmeden çözdü: Kentin iskeleti havadan göründü. Bu kentin kaderini ordular değil, nehirler belirledi.

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