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Marsh Arabs. --- Euphrates River Valley --- Tigris River Valley --- Social life and customs. --- Social life and customs.

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This important account investigates the ruin of the Mesopotamian marsheshistorically one of the world's most important wetland environmentsalong with the decimation of an area inhabited, since the time of the Sumerians, by thousands of people living on artificial islands of mud and reeds and depending on sustainable fishing and farming. Located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Iraq, the history of this important ecological and unique cultural jewel, which was destroyed under Saddam Hussein's reign through a series of constructed dams and water diversions designed to eradic

Marsh Arabs --- Wetland ecology --- Genocide --- Cuneiform inscriptions --- Inscriptions, Cuneiform --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian --- Achaemenian inscriptions --- Cuneiform writing --- Old Persian inscriptions --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- Crime --- Wetlands ecology --- Ecology --- Ma'dan --- Arabs --- Ethnology