{"id":98501,"date":"2014-07-20T00:46:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T20:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=98501"},"modified":"2014-07-20T00:46:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T20:46:28","slug":"worlds-biggest-cemetery-1400-year-old-iraqi-burial-site-contains-over-five-million-bodies-and-as-the-country-descends-into-new-chaos-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=98501","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s biggest cemetery: 1,400-year-old Iraqi burial site contains over FIVE MILLION bodies and &#8211; as the country descends into new chaos &#8211; counting . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Wadi-us-Salaam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-98479\" alt=\"\u0533\u0565\u0580\u0565\u0566\u0574\u0561\u0576\u0578\u0581 \u053b\u0580\u0561\u0584\u0578\u0582\u0574\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Wadi-us-Salaam.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Wadi-us-Salaam.jpg 964w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Wadi-us-Salaam-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Wadi-us-Salaam-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is already the world&#8217;s biggest cemetery, the final resting resting place of some five million souls but it&#8217;s growing all the time.<\/p>\n<p>With gravestones stretching out as far as the eye can see, Wadi Al-Salaam, which translates as Valley of Peace, is an ancient Islamic cemetery near the holy city Shiite city of Najaf.<\/p>\n<p>The site is located close to the shrine of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first Shia Imam and fourth Caliph and as a result nearly all Iraq&#8217;s Shi&#8217;a muslim population request to be buried there.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 500,000 additional bodies are buried at Wadi Al-Salaam every year, however in recent weeks the figure has been even higher due to victims of the country&#8217;s bitter civil war.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Wadi-us-Salaam1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-98480\" alt=\"Wadi-us-Salaam1\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Wadi-us-Salaam1.jpg\" width=\"278\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Wadi-us-Salaam1.jpg 964w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Wadi-us-Salaam1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Wadi-us-Salaam1-794x1024.jpg 794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; It is already the world&#8217;s biggest cemetery, the final resting resting place&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":98481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}