“It is close to a miracle that cuneiform tablets made of unfired clay survived so many decades under water,” Peter Pfälzner, director of the Department of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Tübingen in Germany said in a statement.
City under water again
To help preserve the ancient city, the ruins have been covered with plastic coating. And truck loads of gravel have been added to the site. The gravel is an aid to protect the clay walls.
Puljiz added that water levels rose gradually since February, and the Bronze Age city is now submerged again.
“It is completely unpredictable when it will resurface,” she said. “The only thing that is certain is that me and my colleagues will be there again when the time comes.”
