Hatra
What can we do with the past, when we stand stunned in the ruins of Hatra?
Just a few years ago in the desert between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, in the midst of a flat brownish dried up river basin about 300 kilometers from Baghdad, the ruins of the ancient town of Hadra still lay to the north. The ruins of the city walls rose high. Archaeologists said that the brick wallwhich protected life 2,200 years agowas a kind of circular fortress two kilometers in diameter. It was also an astonishing feat of architecture: if you walked around it you found four gates, eleven bastions, 28 large towers and 160 small towers.
January 26, 2016
What can we do with the past, when we stand stunned in the ruins of Hatra?
Just a few years ago in the desert between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, in the midst of a flat brownish dried up river basin about 300 kilometers from Baghdad, the ruins of the ancient town of Hadra still lay to the north. The ruins of the city walls rose high. Archaeologists said that the brick wallwhich protected life 2,200 years agowas a kind of circular fortress two
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