The Queen of the Desert's summer holiday: Never before seen photographs taken by Gertrude Bell reveal how the explorer journeyed across... They brushed off bricks and removed earth to clear what appeared to be the pier of a bridge spanning an urban canal of Larsa, which was the capital of Mesopotamia just before Babylon, at the start of the second millennium BC. Christie's said: 'This filing is linked to new information regarding an unidentified dealer's admission … that he illegally impor...