Ancient Turkish town prepares to vanish under floodwaters
The historic Turkish town of Hasankeyf set to vanish forever under the floodwaters from the Ilisu Dam project. The historic edifices will be moved in a hugely ambitious programme that has parallels with the shifting of key archaeological sites from the Pharaonic era in Upper Egypt when the Aswan dam was built in the 1960s.
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