Multitemporal Satellite Images for Knowledge of the Assyrian Capital Cities and for Monitoring Landscape Transformations in the Upper Course of Tigris River

Figure 9

The territory of Kalhu (A) in a Corona KH-4B photo of 1968; Tell Kashaf (B) and traces and remains of the Assyrian canal named Patti-nuḫši (C, D, and E) and of another canal dated post the Neo-Assyrian period can be seen (F); an enlargement of the image shows the Assyrian settlement of Tell Kashaf, strategically located very near to the juncture of the Upper Zab and the Tigris.