Ancient Turkish town prepares to vanish under floodwaters

AFP English 2017-10-20

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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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