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Natural PlacesSite Name: Birkleyn CavesCountry: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 16.295 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Diyarbakır
Latitude: 38.531088N Longitude: 40.555412E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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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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