turkey prepares to destroy 12,000 year old city

[Pickman's model]

Turkey's 12,000-year-old Hasankeyf settlement faces obliteration (2017)
‘They are barbaric’: Turkey prepares to flood 12,000-year-old city to build dam (2019)



tbh the archaeological loss is bad enough but the effect this will have on wildlife and on people living in iraq - it beggars belief.

 

[dessiato]

I read this earlier. It's truly shocking.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Not any more surprising than routing a pipeline through sacred native land and burial sites. (But, Confederate monuments get to stay--Its historical, you know.)

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Basically vandalism of collective human history.

 

[friedaweed]

I was sat in a hotel a few months back in London listening to yanks visiting the school of economics talking about future-proofing and inter-generational wealth through harvesting water resources. Looks like the East is thinking like the west to me

Worlds gorn mad