Best places: Archaeological sites in Sebardan, Iraq

👍👍 Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan became an iconic Palaeolithic site following Ralph Solecki's mid twentieth-century discovery of Neanderthal remains. Solecki argued that some of these individuals had died in rockfalls and—controversially—that others were interred with formal burial rites, including...

👍👍 Nergal Gate is one of the gates of the walls of the city of Nineveh in its north. Nergal or Nergal is the god of the dead among the ancient Iraqis and was the chief god of the city of Kuthi. At the entrance to the door there are two large winged bulls that are like its guardian angel, and in Assyria...