Severe drought in Turkey's Keban Dam in Tunceli revealed the military barracks of the ancient Pertek Castle, which emerged for only the second time since the dam started operating 51 years ago.

T he so-called Funnel Beaker Culture (4000–2800 BCE) represents the first phase in Southern Scandinavia/northern Germany in which people were agriculturalists and kept livestock. The lifestyle ...

Pertek Castle, built by the Urartians on a sharp hill by the Murat River in the 8th century BCE, is 2,800 years old. Since the Keban Dam began operating in 1974 it became an island. The castle ...