Photos documenting life in the marshes of southern Iraq in 1967, where 200,000 Marsh Arabs (also cal
Photos documenting life in the marshes of southern Iraq in 1967, where 200,000 Marsh Arabs (also called Madans) once lived before the water was dried up.The marshes (which are believed to be the storied Garden of Eden) dried up after new upstream dams diverted river flow away from them, and Saddam Hussein drained them as retribution for uprisings against his regime. As a result, the undisturbed life of the Marsh Arabs, who lived there for over 2,000 years, was lost. -- source link