During ancient times, lands that now constitute Iraq were known as Mesopotamia (“Land Between the Rivers”), a region whose extensive alluvial plains gave rise to some of the world’s earliest civilizations, including those of Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria.
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Persian New Year A second one hour compilation of short travel stories from around the globe. In this episode: Persian
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Mesopotamia was the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, a fertile oasis in an otherwise inhospitable land the size of modern Iraq. Life in the green valley was extreme – flood, storm, dust, disease and death were all recorded.
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Islamic Shrines – Many religions sites are uncovered throughout Iraq, the Tomb of Ali, the Islamic equivalent of Christ, is buried in Najaf, a sacred Shi’ite shrine. Ali’s Son Hussein’s mausoleum is in nearby Kerbala.
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As important gateways between Africa, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, this region has a rich history and a tumultuous present. Here you can survey two and a half millennia of history and marvel at the illustrated architecture in the grand capital of the Archaemenid Empire, or recall recent history on the path forged through Afghanistan by the Hippy Trail of the 1970’s.
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