Where the river rises: engineering memory at the heart of Mesopotamia
In southeastern Turkey, where the Tigris curves through millennia of sediment and stone, Hasankeyf — a city 12,000 years old, a crossroads of Romans, Byzantines, Artuqids, Ayyubids and Ottomans civilizations — was destined to disappear beneath the reservoir of the Ilısu Dam. Before the waters rose, major monuments including mosques, tombs, historic gates and other […]
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