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This years dig began well behind schedule, according to the head of the archaeological team, Professor Oluğ Arık, who blamed the Culture and Tourism Ministry for the three months long delay. This season, there will be a team of 40 technicians and 120 workers taking part in the one month long dig. Ark, who has been working on the site since 1991, said that if excavations were kept with this speed that there would be a need for another 50 years to save the beautiful city. Excavations are like an operation, he said. There are no fast or slow ones, there is only the right one. He also said that in teams precious work, their major discovery was a tile making industry in Hasankeyf, which has been home to many civilisations. He also praised the statement by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan that Hasankeyf should not be destroyed for the sake of some energy and water. However the fate of the city, once home to civilisations such as the Romans, Byzantines, Assyrians, Arabs and Ottomans and which was the capital for the Artuklular, is still unclear. The medieval city is full of cave houses caved into rocks, mosques, palaces and old bridges crossing over the Biblical Tigris River. | ||||
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