The Christian Assyrians antikvarijati claim on his side to be the real Kurds, for here lay Nineveh,

IS raging in northern Iraq, and they are located in an area that is of great importance for our global heritage. I am one of the few who got to see what is hidden in this area, as I traveled around the 2011-2012 period as a journalist for an oil company. Thanks to their special privileges and security, I came and my photographer into Assyrian and yezidiske shrines and monuments. Values for all we know is destroyed forever now. They said it was not, but I feel that it is my duty to show these pictures, and tell this story. (Ie story is much, much longer. Notepad my chock full.) The names are anonymous for reasons of Assyrian situation currently. None of these photos are taken by photographer I traveled with, but more amateurish to me.) I tried to sell the article to various newspapers. All unpublished the lack of interest. Today Aftenposten writes about Kurdistan in editorials, by cutting and pasting from Reuters ...
In northern antikvarijati Iraq oil trickles into the day. I've thrown a stone to show oil spray. Since Babylon time, people here used oil to fire and "bitumen", the world's first asphalt. (Click on image for info)
KURDISTAN - Middle East Kinderegg Northern Iraq is Kurdistan. Hit flows thousands antikvarijati of Arabs and Kurds, to join a nascent economic recovery thanks to oil wealth, antikvarijati democratic governance and transition to a market economy. Can Kurdistan become the Middle East's new role model? Kurdistan is not a country but an independent autonomous region in northern Iraq. They are still subject to Baghdad, which has more or less left the region to itself. Here live about 4.5 million of the world 30 million Kurds, and thus constitutes the largest ethnic group in the world without their own country. The remaining Kurds are largely resident in neighboring Turkey, Iran and Syria.
Iraqi Kurdistan antikvarijati is civilization cradle, but with many origins. It is believed antikvarijati to be the world's oldest Christian church has its headquarters here: Yezidiene, which many Muslims regarded as devil worshipers.
The truth is that they believe antikvarijati God reigns antikvarijati over the seven archangels. They are particularly concerned peacock angel, which they believe are created in God's image, and that Christians and Muslims regard as the fallen angel (Satan).
The Christian Assyrians antikvarijati claim on his side to be the real Kurds, for here lay Nineveh, parts of ancient Mesopotamia and other great civilizations of great significance for our own cultural development. That Kurdistan is a wet dream for archaeologists is only initial. It could partly Agatha Christies archaeologist husband Sir Max Mallowan confirm. He was among the last who work here in twenty century, before war and misery let a lid, and maturity of the vast treasures. Some work was resumed after World War II, but since 1990 has many of the greatest archaeological antikvarijati values have been neglected and vandalized.
A travel around Kurdistan therefore offers unique experiences. The photographer antikvarijati and I stand alone, without anyone other than our armed guards antikvarijati around us, and look at the caves. Assyrian stone reliefs. They depict rulers with swords, winged bulls and Cuneiform antikvarijati (our earliest characters) carved into the hillsides in a place we've never heard of.
In caves hold some local one might inadvertently disrespectful picnic, with the car parked right outside. Kurds we ask knows very little. Some hundred thousand years old, says the guard, who take a crack at. Back home I search the place up on the internet and find virtually nothing, but rather a cry of warning that this must be taken better care of.
Of more recent date are monasteries carved antikvarijati into the hillsides. Sant Hormizo is perhaps the world's antikvarijati oldest monastery, and it is partly carved antikvarijati into the mountain side in what is nothing less mountain range Qardu, where Noah's ark shall have stranded after the Flood (according to Mesopotamian legends). More hidden room full of stone tablets with writing. It is special to go places that you know had been surrounded by fences, guards, opening times, brochures, cafes, guides and museums elsewhere in the world. Here we are also alone. A few local lurches up the hairpin antikvarijati bends from the village a few kilometers further down. They come to pray and go again. Also they know very little. War costs, and old stories do not provide shelter, food or medicine. The tragedy is that whoever loses its history, also lose their identity, and the Kurds are identity Kurds self-preservation.
Generation to recuperate, will and consensus on a new and better society, bearing yet the fear of Saddam Hussein's reign of terror. Thanks steadfastness to retain their own customs, language and religion, they have been persecuted and subjected to genocide until recently. In 1988, close to 100,000 Kurds brutally murdered with mustard gas in the town of Halabja during what was called Anfal. Repercussions has hurt even more.
Assyrians were here first. The conflict in Kurdistan is also internal, between different religious groups. Here from a convent and children