Aerial View of Marsh Arab Reed House Villages in Flood Plain of Tigris and Euphrates Rivers of Southern Iraq in mid-1970s

NASARIYAH - IRAQ: Marsh Arab villages of reed houses on small islands dot the landscape of Southern Iraq where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet, the legendary site of the Garden of Eden. After the Gulf War Saddam Hussein started to drain the Marshes in an attempt to punish the Marsh Arabs for their opposition to his regime; circa 1975 (Photo by Nik Wheeler/Corbis via Getty Images}