A thousand years later, chariots raced around the still-lying sculpture in honor of a friend who died before his time. The competitors had never heard of the Hittites.
What happens to the work of empire when the empire disappears?
Read the full story here: https://survivingtheflood.substack.com/p/monuments-and-quarries
In the Middle Ages, travelers thought it was a magical dam sealed by Plato with magical runes.
For the full story, https://survivingtheflood.substack.com/p/intimacy-and-triumph
I recently started a substack that contains meditations on memory and loss through the stories ancient sites (I'm a professional archaeologist myself).
I started it for myself, because I am so much happier when I am doing sincere, non-technical writing every day.
But since I've started posting, I am getting so much more positive feedback from my readers than I ever expected. It makes me feel that people are really benefiting from my writing, and I want to be able to share it with more people. I've been posting in subreddits and facebook groups, but I don't really have much of a social media reputation. What would you recommend for helping readers find my work?
A spindle whorl sanded from a fragment of a shattered jar, ca. 2800 BCE.
It's from Norşuntepe, an ancient town that was flooded in 1974 by the construction of Turkey's first hydroelectic dam.
After 50 years, the water has washed away centuries of history, but the town has emerged from the reservoir as an island.
For the whole story:
https://survivingtheflood.substack.com/p/picking-through-the-remains
The water was swallowing Hasankeyf after 12,000 years.
We watched from the old cemetery, after all the bodies had been ripped out, one by one.
It was late February 2020.
With SaraNoa Mark, I photographed what went under.
Essay + full photo archive: https://survivingtheflood.substack.com/p/submerged-cities-part-one-watching
The water was swallowing Hasankeyf after 12,000 years.
We watched from the old cemetery, after all the bodies had been ripped out, one by one.
It was late February 2020.
With SaraNoa Mark, I photographed what went under.
Essay + full photo archive: https://survivingtheflood.substack.com/p/submerged-cities-part-one-watching