MICHAEL WOOD ON…
May 12, 2022
3 minutes
ILLUSTRATION BY FEMKE DE JONG
“We lament the loss of all the good things that come with city life”
atching with horror the destruction of Mariupol in Ukraine – the obliteration of a city of more than 400,000 people – my mind went to other cities, other times. More than 30 years ago, in the aftermath of the war with Iran, I went to southern Iraq, the heartland of ancient Sumer, and the sites of Nippur, Eridu and Uruk – the first
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