Figure 64. Payday in the rain shelter of the House XIII great room. Ali Aqil and Bert de Vries distributing the weekly payroll, 5-11-2015. Photo by Muaffaq Hazza
Figure 28. While stones were being removed, another part of the team began removing the soil using buckets and ropes. The strategy was to remove the thinner layers from the edges where bedrock was higher to isolate the deeper and thicker layer in the middle. This and the following 20 photographs show the soil ‘melt’ away until the final remnant is removed from the deeper center. 20-10-2015
Figure 30. Taking the high ground first – in a sea of wet sediment. 27-10-2015
Figure 31. The rainfall was light, and the soil dried quickly. 29-10-2015
Figure 10. Roman Reservoir the day after the rains, 2-2-2012.
Figure 56. The following week some rains came. 17-11-2015. Photo by Muaffaq Hazza.
Figure 13. The soil dried after the water was pumped out in late September. 21-10-2015.
