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Article: Eridu: City of the First Kings.
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- Calliope
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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A holy house, a house of the gods in a holy place, had not been made; A reed had not come forth, a tree had not been created; A house had not been made, a city had not been built ... All the lands were sea ... Then Eridu was made ...
--The Creation of the World by Marduk
J. E. TAYLOR DESCRIBED HIS 1854 EXCAVATIONS AT ANCIENT ERIDU AS "UNPRODUCTIVE OF ANY very important results." Although his first season at Eridu was definitely not promising, the situation would improve for those who followed Taylor.
Scholars had good reason to expect great findings. The ancient Sumerians considered Eridu one of the oldest cities in Mesopotamia. According to ...
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... ... specialists visited eight sites, to the north of Basra: Ur, Ubaid, Eridu, Warka, Larsa, Tell el-Ouelli, Lagash and Tell el-Lahm ... in the aftermath of the coalition invasion. At Ur, Ubaid, Eridu and Warka, no evidence was found of any looting. As to why ...
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