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Here are the top Iraq ruins listings so you can find the best in Iraq for your trip. Read these ruins reviews written by real travelers. You can narrow these results using the filters to the left.
1. Uruk
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As Samawah, Al Muthanna Province, Iraq
This is perhaps the least developed excavation site of all the major ancient sites in Iraq, and the oldest. The ancient city of Uruk was the home of the title..
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Umm Qasr, Al Basrah Province, Iraq
I was Member of GERMED 15 in 2002-2003 at UNIKOM.
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Baghdad, Baghdad Province, Iraq
This would have been much cooler without the body armor and concern over getting shot at. I hear times have improved though. The ruins really are quite grand. If you..
4. Camp Liberty
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Baghdad, Baghdad Province, Iraq
Culture shock to the extreme can be experienced here. Drop in from the sky circling down from the clouds wondering why you can't see desert, and realize that Baghdad is..
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Samarra', Salah ad Din Province, Iraq
the minaret was built during the Abbasid era. it is long and with spiral shape to allow the person in charge of calling to people to pray to climb on top and call.
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Arbil, Arbil Province, Iraq
The Citadel of Arbil in the city of Erbil, Kurdistan/Iraq is one of the oldest cities in the world that has been continuously inhabited since the 6th century BC. The..
7. Temple of Ur
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Ur, Baghdad Province, Iraq
Abraham's House is in the terrain and of course the first temple in western civilization wich is the Temple of Ur.
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Baghdad, Baghdad Province, Iraq
They are remains of the great gates the Persians built leading into Baghdad during the reign of the Persian Empire. They are huge. When was there last, the Iraqi..
9. Al Kut
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Al Kut, Wasit Province, Iraq
There use to be a fortress wall there. That fell down during my time there... the gaurd towers also fell, along with murels of Saddam. Great town to be in though.....
10. Ninewah
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Al Mawsil, Ninawa Province, Iraq
Very interesting to walk up to the gates of an ancient city that is talked about in the Bible. Not much to see these days as most of the ancient city is now just farm..
