Erbil, Kurdistan
This is where humanity stopped and settled, built walls and roofs, made homes and where the culture of the land between the Euphrates and the Tigris flourished into the written word, poetry and philosophy. Referred to as the Fertile Crescent this land is Mesopotamia.
Even today after 8000 years conflict ranges with tribe against tribe and the sons of Abraham finding cause to forsake the teaching of faith and mutilate brother upon brother.
Will there be another 8000 years of humanity?
Said to be the oldest continually inhabited city in the World the main "Old" town sit perhaps 30 mts above the normal ground level. Not a natural entity, this elevation is how the city has actually built itself above the desert floor...……… centuries of humanity loving, building arguing living. It's an amazing place.
Even today after 8000 years conflict ranges with tribe against tribe and the sons of Abraham finding cause to forsake the teaching of faith and mutilate brother upon brother.
Will there be another 8000 years of humanity?
Said to be the oldest continually inhabited city in the World the main "Old" town sit perhaps 30 mts above the normal ground level. Not a natural entity, this elevation is how the city has actually built itself above the desert floor...……… centuries of humanity loving, building arguing living. It's an amazing place.