#samarra

[gameraboy2]

Lana Turner as Samarra in The Prodigal (1955)

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[wildoute]

#Abu Dulaf #Samarra

[wgm-beautiful-world]

The Great Malwiya Mosque in Samarra - IRAQ

#malwiya mosque #mezquita #samarra #iraq #asia

[nelc]

One seeming inspiration for depictions of the Tower of Babel was this incredibly striking spiral minaret in the city of Samarra, Iraq. It stands over 50 metres tall and was built in the 9th century under the Abbasid Caliph al-Mutawakkil.

#Samarra #Iraq #spiral #tower #not the Tower of Babel #architecture

[biostatprof]

Looking south to Cabo da Roca and Praia da Ursa

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[carloskaplan]

Vista aérea de Samarra (Irak, 1909)

#irak #samarra #arqueoloxía

[joacomaduro]

La Gran mezquita de Samarra, Iraq

#instantaneas #samarra #iraq

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Artist: Anthony van Dyck, 1627, (Detail)

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This story first appeared in the Jewish Talmud over 1500 years ago. Later it appeared in Muslim Sufi literature called “When Death Came to Baghdad”. The message is the same just the names and places have changed and later it was adapted by the British writer Somerset Maugham...... APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA There was once a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to the market to buy provisions, and in a short time the servant came back,white and trembling, he said, “Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a man in the crowd, and when I turned I saw it was Death that had jolted me. He looked at me and made a threatening gesture. Now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from the city so to avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death won’t find me.” The merchant lent him his horse, the servant mounted it, dug its spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop, he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw Death disguised as a man standing in the crowd, and he walked over to him and said, ‘Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning?” The man said, “it was only a gesture of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.”

-Epigraph by W. Somerset Maugham to John O’Hara, 1934 book of the same name.

[Jim Fagiolo]

#Jim Fagiolo #W. Somerset Maugham #John O'Hara #Samarra #death #Anthony van Dyck #Jewish Talmud #stories #Muslim Sufi #When Death Came to Baghdad

[bunimalsfiberdolls]

wilds

#BJD #Samarra #Twigling Pieta #always legit

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Salt in the soil can aid archaeologists in some circumstances, but the same mineral can also be destructive, and is destroying heritage sites, according to the geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri, who described salt as “aggressive … it will destroy the site – destroy the bricks, destroy the cuneiform tablets, destroy everything”.

The destructive power of salt is increasing as concentrations rise amid water shortages caused by dams built upstream by Turkey and Iran, and years of mismanagement of water resources and agriculture within Iraq.

“The salinity in Shatt al-Arab river started to increase from the 90s,” said Ahmad N A Hamdan, a civil engineer who studies the quality of the water in Iraq’s rivers. In his observations, the Shatt al-Arab – formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates - annually tests poor or very poor quality, especially in 2018, which he called a “crisis” year when brackish water sent at least 118,000 people to hospital in southern Basra province during a drought.

The climate crisis is adding to the problem. Iraq is getting hotter and dryer. The United Nations estimates that mean annual temperatures will rise by 2C by 2050 with more days of extreme temperatures of over 50C, while rainfall will drop by as much as 17% during the rainy season and the number of sand and dust storms will more than double from 120 per year to 300. Meanwhile, rising seawater is pushing a wedge of salt up into Iraq and in less than 30 years, parts of southern Iraq could be under water.

“Imagine the next 10 years, most of our sites will be under saline water,” said Jotheri, a professor of archaeology at Al-Qadisiyah University and co-director of the Iraqi-British Nahrein Network researching Iraqi heritage. He started to notice damage from salt at historic sites about a decade ago.

One spot suffering significant damage is Unesco-recognised Babylon, the capital of the Babylonian Empire, where a salty sheen coats 2,600-year-old mud bricks. In the Temple of Ishtar, the Sumerian goddess of love and war, the base of the walls are crumbling. In the depths of the thick wall, salt accumulates until it crystallises, cracking the bricks and causing them to break apart.

Other sites that have been affected are Samarra, the Islamic-era capital with its spiral minaret that is being eroded by sandstorms, and Umm al-Aqarib with its White Temple, palace and cemetery that are being swallowed up by the desert.

This year, Iraq lost a piece of its cultural heritage. On the edge of the desert, 150km south of Babylon, is a bed of salt that was once Sawa Lake. The spring-fed water was home to at least 31 species of bird, including the grey heron and the near-threatened ferruginous duck. Now, it is completely dry because of overuse of water by surrounding farms and climate change. Lack of enforcement of regulations over groundwater use means farmers can freely drill wells and plant wheat fields that are an eruption of lush green in the dusty desert landscape.

#archeology #climate change #Iraq #Babylon #samarra #mesopotamia

[bertilakslady]

Turns out it can be avoided… for now, at least 👀

#samarra #appointment in samarra

[ladymisteria]

Laugh, laugh, laugh again, Now the war is not scary.

Burn the uniforms in the fire in the evening, Burn in the throat vine to the full.

Music of tambourines 'till dawn. The soldier who all night danced,

Saw in the crowd that black lady. Saw that she was looking for him and became frightened.

"Save me, save me, great ruler! Let me flee, flee from here!"

"At the parade she stood by me, And she looked at me with malice."

"Give him, give him an animal! Son of lightning, worthy of a king!"

"Quick, quicker so that he may flee. Give him the fastest beast there is…"

"Run horse, run please! All the way to Samarkand I will lead you,"

"Don't stop, fly please! Run like the wind, that I will save myself…"

Oh oh, horse, Oh, oh, horse, Oh, oh, horse, Oh, oh, horse, Oh, oh...

Rivers then fields, then the dawn was purple, white the towers he finally touched,

But there was in the crowd that black lady. Tired of fleeing, his head he bowed.

"You were among the people in the capital. I know you looked at me with malice."

"I ran away among the crickets and cicadas, I ran away but I find you here…"

"You are wrong, you deceive yourself, you are wrong soldier. I was not looking at you with malice."

"It was merely an astonished look: What were you doing the day before yesterday there?"

"I was expecting you here for today in Samarkand. You were so far away two days ago."

"I feared that, to hear the band, You wouldn't make it in time to get here."

"It's not so far away Samarkand, Run horse, run that way."

"I sang along with you all night long: 'Run like the wind, that he will get there…'"

Oh oh, horse, Oh, oh, horse, Oh, oh, horse, Oh, oh, horse, Oh, oh...

#Samarcanda #samarkand #roberto vecchioni #death in samarra #samarra #Italy #italian song #1977 #Youtube #Italians #italian

[jhze7mjdhrfmv]

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[cockworkangels]

he gets blood and god knows what other substances splashed on him on the daily and yet he's so grossed out by a grimy railing

#i love youuu #6x11 appointment in samarra #s6 rewatch

[thebeautyofspn]

6x11 Appointment In Samarra

#6x11 #appointment in samarra #spn #spn aesthetic #supernatural #supernatural aesthetic #thebeautyofspn #sam winchester #soulless sam #Balthazar #angels #symbols & sigils #hands #a favorite #Season 6

[arcanespillo]

Appointment in Samarra

Supernatural S6E11

#spn #supernatural #sam winchester #dean winchester #spn screencaps #jensen ackles #jared padalecki #spn s6e11 #6x11 #appointment in samarra