Stunning ancient sculptures and orthostats (large upright stones) are just some of the incredible findings that have been revealed by archaeologists within the factious and ancient city of Karkemish (Carchemish), which lies on the war-torn Turkey-Syria border, and the northwestern edge of ancient Mesopotamia. A site of upheaval and war since ancient times, the city has been excavated only intermittently since World War I due to various conflicts, and was a center of excavation for British research teams that included explorer T.E. Lawrence, known famously as Lawrence of Arabia, in the early 1900’s. Popular Archaeology reports it was here that “kings and conquerors of the Mittani, Hittite, and Neo-Assyrian empires established seats of power, [and] the Babylonian forces of Nebuchadnezzar
