[waheoo]

There is no amount of money that can compensate the archeological loss from the intentional flooding of these areas.

Multiple cradle of civilization level sites were flooded with not enough funding or effort given to excavating these sites thoroughly before flooding.

[ArnoVW]

For those wanting to get an idea of what that means, there is an episode of that institute of of science documentaries, BBC Horizon, that covers the flooding of Zeugma.

https://youtu.be/fnY8ATNVYgw