The Great Ziggurat of Ur
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 4, 2016
In the middle of the third millennium BCE, the ancient Mesopotamians began building huge stepped platforms out of fired bricks called ziggur...
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The Highway of Death
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2016
Twenty five years ago, one of the most brutal massacres in war history occurred in Iraq, along Highway 80, about 32 km west of Kuwait city. ...
Taq Kasra: The Archway of Ctesiphon
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 22, 2016
The ancient city of Ctesiphon, on the banks of Tigris, is located about 35 km southeast of modern Baghdad. Established in the late 120s BC, ...
Al-Shaheed Monument, Baghdad
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 14, 2016
During the 1970s and 1980s, Saddam Hussein’s government spent a lot of oil money in building monuments around Baghdad. Two of these are quit...
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Around the World
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 11, 2015
Throughout history, thousands of wars have been fought and millions of soldiers have lost their lives, but only an insignificant fraction of...
World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Sulabiya, Kuwait
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2015
An average automobile tire can travel around 30,000 kilometers before they need to be replaced. Tires that have reached the end of their li...
The Great Mosque of Samarra
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 8, 2014
The Great Mosque of Samarra is located in Samarra city, in Iraq, about 120 km north of Baghdad, on the banks of river Tigris. It was built i...
The Eternal Fire at Baba Gurgur
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 24, 2013
Baba Gurgur (literally "Father of Fire") is a large oil field near the city of Kirkuk which was the first to be discovered in Nort...
The Citadel Town of Erbil, Iraq
Kaushik Patowary
May 24, 2013
At the heart of the city of Erbil, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, lies an ancient mound of earth some 25 to 30 meters tall from the surrou...
Wadi Al-Salaam: The Largest Cemetery in The World
Kaushik Patowary
May 15, 2013
Wadi us-Salaam, which literally means the Valley of Peace, is an Islamic cemetery located in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq. The cemetery cove...
