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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

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