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Crossing the Euphrates in antiquity: Zeugma seen from space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Anthony Comfort ,
Catherine Abadie-Reynal  and
Rifat Ergeç
Anthony Comfort
Affiliation:
Franco-Turkish Mission to Zeugma c/oInstitut Français d'Etudes Anatoliennes, Istanbul
Catherine Abadie-Reynal
Affiliation:
Franco-Turkish Mission to Zeugma c/oInstitut Français d'Etudes Anatoliennes, Istanbul
Rifat Ergeç
Affiliation:
Franco-Turkish Mission to Zeugma c/oInstitut Français d'Etudes Anatoliennes, Istanbul
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Abstract

This article reviews progress in extensive survey work using satellite photographs along the course of the reservoir of the Birecik dam, completed in June 2000. Particular attention has been paid during field work to routes both along and across the river; here it is the east-west routes crossing the river which are examined in detail and in the context of the region's historical geography. The city of Zeugma, which has been the object of recent excavations, was the principal such crossing point but by no means the only one on the middle course of the Euphrates. A subsequent article will discuss north-south routes in the vicinity of the middle Euphrates and the question of its navigability.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 50 , December 2000 , pp. 99 - 126
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 2000

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