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The Marshes (Ahwar) 4
📷 Alli Khalil · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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📷 Alli Khalil · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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The Marshes (Ahwar)

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Across the agesDhi QarWorld Heritage

Vast wetlands where the Tigris and Euphrates meet, home to communities who have built reed houses and mudhif guesthouses for millennia, much like those on Sumerian seals.

Listed together with Ur, Uruk and Eridu as a mixed natural and cultural World Heritage Site.

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