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World's biggest cemetery: 1,400-year-old Iraqi burial site contains over FIVE MILLION bodies .(images)

It is already the world’s biggest cemetery, the final resting resting place of some five million souls but it’s growing all the time. With gravestones stretching out as far as the eye can see, Wadi Al-Salaam, which translates as Valley of Peace, is an ancient Islamic cemetery near the holy city Shiite city of Najaf. The site is located close to the shrine of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, the […]