**Acknowledgements**

The authors would like to thank the military authorities at ANITKABIR; KA.BA Conservation of Historic Buildings and Architecture Ltd. with the coordination of rescue excavation director Prof. Dr. Abdüsselam Uluçam, Rector of Batman University, Turkey; and Ankara University Earth Sciences Application and Research Center (YEBIM) for supporting the projects. The authors also thank Prof. Yusuf Kagan Kadioglu, head of the Geological Engineering Dept., Ankara University, Turkey; Asst. Prof. Ali Akin Akyol, Baskent Vocational Higher School Program of Restoration and Conservation, Ankara University; and the MSc student group of the Ankara University Geophysical and Geological Engineering Departments for helping us in data collection at Anitkabir.
