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Social media hype and the "obsessive-compulsive" tendencies of younger generations are demonizing some basic foods, like bread, that have fed humanity for some 8,000 years.

Efforts to destroy Iraq's variegated heritage remain. Spanning four millennia, Iraq hosts a wealth of intangible global heritage, from the Assyrian city of Ashura to the Abbasid's seat in Samarra. Regrettably, both of these sites are now in danger.

An open-air tavern was recently unearthed in an ancient city in Iraq with a fridge, oven, benches, and even some leftovers still in the bowls after nearly 5,000 years!

<p>David Graeber and David Wengrow seek to pull less hierarchical and more egalitarian and sustainable forms of settlement and social organization out of the frame of utopia and into the narrative of human history. To the extent they succeed, they show humanity today has the choice to organize ourselves for survival.&nbsp;</p>

Most of the Canadians have been detained in camps operated by Kurdish authorities since the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria fell in 2019.