Kurdistan history photos

This is a bronze head of a winged bull, from a handle of a large cauldron. 8th to 7th centuries BCE, Urartian. From Toprakkale, modern-day Turkey. (The British Museum, London) 0

Shex-abdulqadr-barznji with his wife hapsa khany naqeb in1922 slemani. 0

Behistun Inscription and large rock relief on a cliff at Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran. This multilingual inscription was crucial to the decipherment of cuneiform script. 0

KURDISTAN MAPS   1+

Smithsonian Journeys Ancient Egypt and the Nile Virtual Tour   0

  The Middle East, c. 1190. Saladin’s empire and its vassals shown in red; territory taken from the Crusader states 1187–1189 shown in pink. Light green indicates Crusader territories surviving Saladin‘s death. 0

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Ahmed Uthman with Sheik Mahmud Barzanji in Sulaymaniyah in 1927     1+