A joint team of archeologists from the U.K.'s Durham University and the University of Al-Qadisiyah stumbled across the site while undertaking a remote sensing survey to map the Darb Zubaydah, a pilgrimage route from Iraq's Kufa to Mecca in Saudi Arabia built more than 1,000 years ago.
The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia in present-day Iraq in the A.D.630s between Arab Muslims and the army of the Sassanid Persian dynasty during a period of Muslim expansion.
Declassified 1970s-era U.S.spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site of a seventh-century battle that became decisive in the spread of Islam throughout the region.
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