| ▲ | hydrogen7800 3 days ago | |
Was this site known before the Mosul dam was built? It's only been about 40 years. | ||
| ▲ | zamadatix 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
It seems they knew there were hundreds of sites to be inundated and there was an effort to investigate as many as they could before the damn was built https://www.jstor.org/stable/25182504 | ||
| ▲ | rdc12 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
It's very common that both historical artifacts and natural wonders have been consumed by reservoirs, I suspect it would be almost impossible to avoid this. | ||