Eridu

Dhi Qar Governorate · Iraq

Eridu, Iraq
Photo: David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Regarded in tradition as the oldest city in the world, with a series of superimposed temples culminating in a ziggurat platform. Its earliest shrines reach back to the beginnings of Mesopotamian civilization.

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