(Top) - The Strand - Basra, Iraq, WWI era. (Middle upper) - Ezra's Tomb on the Tigris River, Iraq - The Tomb of the Prophet Ezra at Al-ʻUzair. The present buildings (depicted here), which unusually comprise a joint Muslim and Jewish shrine, are around 250 years old; there is an enclosing wall and a blue-tiled dome, and a separate synagogue. (Middle lower) - The gigantic vaulted hall (the Taq Kisra) at Ctesiphon, an ancient Parthian city located southeast of modern Baghdad. It is traditionally recognised as the palace of Khosrow I. (Lower) - A panoramic view over the rooftops of Baghdad.