Ancient Iraq (33 photos) Bashny.Net

Photo of the early 20th century, devoted to Iraq, or rather ancient and medieval interfluve.

Many photos are clickable.

View from the bird's-eye view at the Great Mosque of al-Mutawakkil in Samarra, located away later medieval town, it is noticeable that it entirely, just over the Great Mosque, it was the largest mosque in the Caliphate.



excavations of the palace of the caliphs in Samarra, in the background mosque and its minaret Mutawakkil Mulvey (shell)



The walls of the Great Mosque of Mutawakkil. The length of the sides of the mosque 240 156 meters.



Al-Askari Mosque in Samarra.



Muezzin in Baghdad.



Market in Baghdad



Talisman fortress tower in Baghdad.



Ships on the Tigris are the same as a thousand years ago.



This landmark melt. tool called Cuff, such baskets Sumerians still swam the Tigris.



Cuff can be both large and small, for one person.



Ships on the Tigris



The ruins of Babylon.



Ishtar Gate in Babylon.





Gates of the palace of Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon.



The ruins of the Assyrian city of Ashur its ziggurat in the background.



Ziggurat of Ur.





The western wall of the ziggurat at Ur.



Oplyvshy ziggurat at Nimrud.



Ruins Sassanian palace at Ctesiphon.





Sacred Shiite city of Najaf is buried in the sand.



The city walls Najaf



Najaf - panorama of the city.



City of the Dead in Najaf.



"The Castle of Sennacherib" - the ruins of the fortress walls in Mosul.



Sanctuary Yazidis in Mosul.



Gateway to the walls of Erbil in northern Iraq.



Khatun Mausoleum Zimurrud in Baghdad.





Minaret in the city of Hilla.



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