The Al Aqiser archaeological site in Ain Tamr, near Karbala in Iraq, includes what has been described as one of the oldest eastern Christian churches, AFP reported.
At Al Aqiser archaeological site in Ain Tamr near Karbala in Iraq, all that remains of Al Aqiser, which has stood in Ain Tamr for more than 1,500 years, are crumbling brick and red earthen walls.
In a country battered by years of conflict, government negligence and climate change, Al Aqiser archaeological site near Karbala in Iraq, is crumbling. Iraq's numerous Christian, Islamic and Mesopotamian heritage relics are being left to weather away.
The crumbling brick and earthen walls at Al Aqiser near Karbala in Iraq, where timeless relics from the past are left to deteriorate.
Centuries of weathering and climate change have left only crumbling evidence of the once-magnificent constructions at Al Aqiser near Karbala in Iraq.
