Ancient Thermal City To Be Flooded In Turkey

SE European Times ^ | 6-23-2005

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[kharaku]

I'd suggest the good citizens buy scuba gear then.

[Wonder Warthog]

Pah-don my ignorance, but what the heck is a "thermal city"??

Never heard that term used in archaelogy before.

[TXnMA]

Sounds like the U.S. is not the only country with eminent domain problems.

[federal]

Evidently the city was built around some thermal hot springs.

[blam]

"Pah-don my ignorance, but what the heck is a "thermal city"??"

Look here:

Thermas World

[Paleo Conservative]

This project will cool it off.

[groovychick]

So truly spoken!!

[Politicalities]

I'd suggest the good citizens buy scuba gear then.

Uh...

Yeah.

I'm happy to report that the Turkish government is providing scuba gear, plus $1,000,000 in diamonds, to every single resident of the city of Allianoi. Would that the Italian government were as generous to its Pompeiian citizens.

[kharaku]

It sounds like few folks reside IN the site to be flooded only near enough to get tourist revenue off it. The smart business move is to adapt and to start sell scuba tours, not to pray the government abandons the DAM.

[devane617]

Call it Atlantis and sell T-Shirts.

[patriot_wes]

"To help save the 1,800-year-old city, environmentalists and other volunteers have formed the Allianoi Initiative Group, with the slogan "Don't Let Allianoi Be Flooded".

let's see folks we need to come with a really flashy slogan,....oh, oh, I know...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. Gettin' busy, are we? ;')

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[norton]

"Another approach under consideration is to move the thermal spring buildings to another location."

Lake Havasu?

[SunkenCiv]

from May 30 2000:

Dam Destroying Ancient Mosaics
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/05/30/tech/main200856.shtml

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Nothing new. Several Egyptian ancient sites were submerged with the flooding of Lake Nassar.

[blam]

"let's see folks we need to come with a really flashy slogan,....oh, oh, I know..."

They don't have a rhyming Jesse like we do, lol.

[SunkenCiv]

some very nice shots here.

North Thermal Baths
http://www.allianoi.org/main/ENG/2.asp

[eleni121]

Another unfortunate and eternal destruction of the past.

Muslims do this a lot.


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