‘We’re just like fish: no water, no life’: Drought and dams push Iraq’s marshes to the edge of extinction
For centuries the area was given life by the spring floodwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, but the marshes have been ...
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A Survey of the Fauna of Iraq: Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, etc
THE study of the survey of the fauna of Iraq is a convincing proof that the interest in systematic zoology is still well maintained in Great Britain. It is really very remarkable that ...
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Ancient stacks of dishes tell tale of society’s dissolution
Excavations in north-eastern Iraq have unveiled neatly stacked bowls dating to more than 5,300 years ago that bear evidence of organized societies ― and whose abandonment points to eventual ...