ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 10月11日 07時15分

The Erbil citadel, in the capital of Iraq’s Kurdish region, is one of the oldest continuously occupied human settlements on earth. It predates Iraqi Kurdistan and the Kurds — and for that matter, Arabs, Genghis Khan, the Persians, Greeks and Romans, all of whom passed this way, most of them not very nicely. Today, there are 2 ways to look at the citadel, which @ivorprickett photographed here last week. (1) It’s one of the oldest continuously occupied human settlements on earth, an @unesco World Heritage Site, and Kurdish officials have gone to great lengths to restore and preserve it despite a severe financial crisis. In 2006, the authorities relocated more than 500 families elsewhere to help preserve the structure. (2) 6000 years or more of human civilization have come to this: In the citadel’s central square is a tall metal pole with a Kurdish flag. Down in the new city, black smoke belches from dozens of rooftop diesel generators during daily power cuts. Their cacophonous roar disrupts the tranquillity of the scene, while hanging over it all is the smell of burning plastic from a nearby trash dump. To hold on to the citadel’s “continuously occupied” title after the evictions, Kurdish officials arranged for 1 family to remain in their ancestral home in the middle of the old town. But life isn’t exactly easy for them. For one thing, they have to bring groceries in by handcart, up the steep entrance ramp to the citadel’s south gate. There’s no parking for visitors, and the kids have a 25-minute hike to school. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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