PhotographAA-0061

A halt for the night at Malikta, Berwar

Place: Berwar · today Iraq
Date: 20th century

Pack animals and men outside the stone house of the village head man at Malikta in Berwar, on the Wigram brothers' travels through the Assyrian mountain villages. Taken before 1914.

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Wigram and Wigram, The Cradle of Mankind (1914), via Internet Archive

Edgar T. A. Wigram · Public domain (published 1914)

A halt for the night at Malikta, Berwar

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