Ziyaret Tepe – how cities are found and then lost

Posted On: Jun 28th, 2018 at 13:32

Turkey
Continuing from the most recent post about Ziyaret Tepe, this article complements the previous one with more detail about the dam and the frantic excavations.
But it’s not just the famous Assyrian city that will be lost – up to 500 ancient sites will also be gone.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/archaeologists-discovered-an-ancient-assyrian-city-only-to-lose-it-again