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Was Eridu the World's First City? - The Sacred Mound of Eridu and Mesopotamian Memory | Sleepy Facts About History
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For five thousand years, people carried wet earth and chopped straw to the same spot in the marshes of southern Iraq, building higher with each generation. This place is Eridu, remembered in later Mesopotamian tradition as the site where kingship first descended from heaven. But does that make it the world's first city? This episode examines the archaeological remains at Tell Abu Shahrain, exploring the monumental mudbrick temples of the Ubaid period and the gradual accumulation of a…
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