This 2024 astronaut photo shows the striking colors of Iraq's Razazah Lake, surrounded by a host of strangely circular fields ...

Archaeologists from the Free University of Brussels (VUB), led by archaeologist Ella Egberts, unearthed ancient stone tools in Iraq's Western Desert ... which was once a large lake during the ...

However, the lake has not always looked like this. The colors only emerged during droughts in the last decade, when the water levels dropped to between 16 and 32 feet (5 and 10 meters). Before ...