Hasankeyf, Turkey, 2019. Children watch Hasankeyf old city from a small tea garden near Tigris river.

The city, whose first settlements date back 12,000 years, has an exceptional archaeological heritage: Assyrian, Roman and Ottoman monuments, thousand-year-old troglodyte houses, remains of a stone bridge and a 12th century mosque are part of it.

Hasankeyf is however condemned to disappear under the water due to the construction of the Ilisu dam on the Tigris River. A total of 70,000 people will be displaced and 196 villages condemned to disappear.