Cursed Places in Baghdad

The Round City of Baghdad

💀💀💀💀 3.9/5 None

The city of Baghdad was founded in the 8th century as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, by its caliph al-Mansur. The...

The Marsh Arabs of Iraq

💀💀💀💀 3.8/5 None

The two great rivers of ancient Mesopotamia—Tigris and Euphrates—rises in the Taurus mountains in southern T...

The Ziggurat of Dur-Kurigalzu

💀💀💀💀 3.8/5 None

This enormous structure rising over the desert sands near the Euphrates River resembles a sandstone butte but is actuall...

Al-Shaheed Monument, Baghdad

💀💀💀 3.3/5 None

During the 1970s and 1980s, Saddam Hussein’s government spent a lot of oil money in building monuments around Bagh...

Taq Kasra: The Archway of Ctesiphon

💀💀💀 3.3/5 None

The ancient city of Ctesiphon, on the banks of Tigris, is located about 35 km southeast of modern Baghdad. Established i...