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Excavated cisterns in Turkey · Mysteria

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Excavated cisterns in Turkey

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Hydraulic works

Dara (Anastasiopolis) — Cistern West Arch

Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Hydraulic culture

Dara (Anastasiopolis) — Cistern West Arch in Mardin, Dara, Turkey is a Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) hydraulic attributed to Hydraulic cultur…