A16 offered a good opportunity for explaining to the broad public the significance of stratigraphy: as one of the panels shows, time can truly be seen through space: the superposition of the Khabur period tombs over the Akkadian period courtyard, and the sections visible where the excavations stopped in the North illustrate how a sequence of some five centuries can be seen visually in the ground.
check o;n multiple pages on Formal Courtyard poster
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