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Restoration completed on 2,800-year-old Urartu water cistern in Türkiye

The restoration of a nearly 2.800-year-old water cistern from the Urartu period at Harput Castle in eastern Anatolia has been completed. The cistern, which features 52 steps and measures about 4.5 meters in diameter and 30 meters deep, will soon be open to visitors.

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Aytac said the restoration of the 112-step cistern from the Urartu period was completed in 2021 and opened to tourism. He also noted that Harput Castle contains many smaller cisterns but only two large stepped cisterns, adding the first, known as the dungeon where a Crusader king was imprisoned during the Seljuk period, was opened to tourism in previous years.