Archaeologists excavate the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Eridu, near Basra in southern Iraq, in 2022. Alla Al-Marjani/Reuters/GTRES. By Antonio Ratti. ... These votive cones, ...

One clay tablet discovered at Eridu, as well as others found elsewhere in Sumer, also tells a flood story about a deluge that mirrors the one found in the Bible’s Old Testament. Biblical historians ...

During the third millennium BCE, a canal, the “Eridu Plain Canal”, connected the city to the Euphrates River, which later changed its course. According to early historical records of Mesopotamia, such ...

The Eridu region, near modern-day Basra in Iraq, remained untouched for centuries, which led to its preservation. This is ...