Atatürk Dam & Kahta

The birthplace of the man who wrote one of the first stories of a journey to the Moon now sleeps at the bottom of a lake… In his work known as ‘A True Story’, the second-century satirist Lucian describes travelers swept up into the sky by a whirlwind until they reach the Moon; he himself was born in Samosata on the banks of the Euphrates, today’s Samsat. So how does a city end up beneath a lake?