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<< Text Pages >> Birkleyn Caves - Cave or Rock Shelter in Turkey

Submitted by davidmorgan on Saturday, 21 September 2013  Page Views: 2450

Natural PlacesSite Name: Birkleyn Caves
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 12.21 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Diyarbakır
Latitude: 38.531088N  Longitude: 40.555412E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
3
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Cave or Rock Shelter in Diyarbakır Province, Turkey

A Late Neolithic settlement in several caves: "The discovery of neolithic Hassuna-Samarra pottery in the entrance halls; which open towards the canyon; suggests that they may have been used seasonally." TAY Project.

The Assyrians believed that this was the source of the River Tigris and "there still exist four small rock inscriptions made by the Assyrian kings Tiglath-pileser I (1114-1076 BC) and Shalmaneser III (858-824 BC): three in the lower cave from which the Dibni flows, and one in an upper cave a few hundred feet so higher up in the mountains." Dr. Matney, University of Akron.

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