Q J Med 2003; 96: 463
© 2003 Association of Physicians
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Marshes in Southern Iraq
Photographed by Dr Alex Paton
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For 5000 years, the reclusive Madan people lived in Southern Iraq among the marshes formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates. When we visited in the 1970s, we were told that the people were more ancient than the first Sumerian inhabitants of