The Qurnah disaster was a May 1855 shipwreck at Al-Qurnah (modern Iraq), at the confluence point of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It represents one...
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Qurnah Disaster: Archaeology & Piracy in Mesopotamia," Bible History Daily, (January 20, 2021), https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/the-qurnah-disaster/...
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found further upstream on the river Tigris. In 1855, Al Qurnah was the site of the Qurnah Disaster, in which local tribes attacked and sank a convoy of a...
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excavated Babylon from 1852 to 1854. Much of their work was lost in the Qurnah Disaster, when a transport ship and four rafts sank on the Tigris river in May...
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trenches there in the early 1852 though the finds were lost in the Qurnah Disaster. None of this early work was published. The name of the site as Kish...
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especially notable as most of the mission's excavations were lost in the Al Qurnah disaster. In 1855 he published Écriture Anarienne, advancing the theory that...
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while Fresnel chose to remain in the Middle East. Further to the Al-Qurnah Disaster noted above, he died of consumption in Baghdad on 30 November 1855...
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antiquities were lost in May 1855 when the expedition's boat sank in the Qurnah Disaster on the Tigris, following an attack by local rebels. However, Thomas...
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Central Marshes stretched between Nasiriyah, Al-'Uzair (Ezra's Tomb) and Al-Qurnah and were mainly fed by the Tigris and its distributaries. They were characterised...
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Operation Sawlat al-Fursan (Charge of the Knights) 24 March 2008 2009 al Qurnah, Iraq Counter Insurgency: Targeting criminal elements by the Iraqi Army...
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the town had a recorded population of 2,500. Due to plague and other disasters, the population was around 1,500 in 1882, rising to 2,500 again by 1891...
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Summersdale Publishers. pp. 105–106. ISBN 978-1849532013. "Uiver". Air Disasters. Retrieved 30 May 2016. "Uiver". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 30...
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after the aircraft failed during a sandstorm after their takeoff from Al-Qurnah in southern Iraq, north of the port of Basra. The dead included Interior...
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